Category: philosopher
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle
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Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
Noam Chomsky
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau
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With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
Maria Montessori
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius
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The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Arthur Schopenhauer