Category: philosopher
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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau