Category: philosopher
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de Montaigne
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: ‘What is the scientific status of the claims?’ ‘What social or ideological needs do they serve?’
Noam Chomsky
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
Noam Chomsky