Category: philosopher
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James