Category: philosopher
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Jean de la Bruyere
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle
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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin
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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey stuff,’ she was right: there was nothing there.
Noam Chomsky
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
John Muir