Category: philosopher
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato
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Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.
Noam Chomsky
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu
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The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
George Santayana
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
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Life is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne