Category: philosopher
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl Marx
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
Maria Montessori
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Michel de Montaigne
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
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I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin