Category: philosopher
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
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History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
Noam Chomsky
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To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle