Category: philosopher
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
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‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Maria Montessori
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato