Category: philosopher
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Noam Chomsky
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.
Francis Bacon
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle