Category: philosopher
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
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I’m about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.
Noam Chomsky
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Michel de Montaigne
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I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‘array’ as far as political purposes were concerned.
Noam Chomsky
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche