Category: philosopher
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche