Category: philosopher
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
Maimonides
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.
Noam Chomsky
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Plato
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson