Category: philosopher
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Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Michel de Montaigne
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche