Category: philosopher
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
Michel de Montaigne
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My family was mostly unemployed working class.
Noam Chomsky
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas Carlyle
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Heraclitus
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
Noam Chomsky
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon