Category: philosopher
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There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.
Noam Chomsky
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
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When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
Noam Chomsky
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi