Category: philosopher
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell