Category: philosopher
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
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I don’t like the intellectual label.
Noam Chomsky
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.
John Muir
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell
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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell