Category: philosopher
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John Muir
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell