Category: philosopher
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
Noam Chomsky
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The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.
Noam Chomsky
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin