Category: philosopher
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
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Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean de la Bruyere
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By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
Henry David Thoreau