Category: philosopher
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes
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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Confucius
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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Rumi
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
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Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
Noam Chomsky
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The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It’s relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the – is its outrage.
Noam Chomsky