Category: philosopher
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Aristotle
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials ā literally, which is why Iām teaching at MIT.
Noam Chomsky
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
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To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Aristotle
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche