Category: philosopher
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Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
Maria Montessori
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
Noam Chomsky
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
Lao Tzu
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Noam Chomsky
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
Socrates
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana