Category: philosopher
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Noam Chomsky
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle