Category: philosopher
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
Noam Chomsky
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky
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Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
Diogenes
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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
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The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
Maria Montessori
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In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes