Category: philosopher
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand Russell
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas
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To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.
Noam Chomsky
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato