Category: philosopher
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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To be among people one loves, that’s sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
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He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi