Category: philosopher
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
Maria Montessori
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de Montaigne
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
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Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‘Wall Street Journal.’
Noam Chomsky
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
Noam Chomsky