Category: philosopher
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
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We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William James
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas