Category: philosopher
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
Confucius
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle
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After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People’s Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries – not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.
Noam Chomsky
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin