Category: philosopher
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It is possible to demonstrate God’s existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
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It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de Montaigne
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This great misfortune – to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes