Category: philosopher
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Noam Chomsky
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Noam Chomsky
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Chanakya