Category: philosopher
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
George Santayana
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato