Category: philosopher
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Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
Noam Chomsky
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It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau