Category: philosopher
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel de Montaigne
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
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Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao Tzu
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
Noam Chomsky