Category: philosopher
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana