Category: philosopher
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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
Rumi
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However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis Bacon
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.
Noam Chomsky