Category: philosopher
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
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Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi
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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Maria Montessori
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
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The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
Noam Chomsky