Category: philosopher
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Henry David Thoreau
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
Maria Montessori
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky