Category: philosopher
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‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
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Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
Noam Chomsky
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
Maimonides
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere