Category: philosopher
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
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Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
Noam Chomsky
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle