Category: philosopher
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My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John Muir
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle