Category: philosopher
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
Noam Chomsky
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.
Maria Montessori
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Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
Noam Chomsky
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl Marx
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau