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Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Good men must not obey the laws too well"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"An unjust peace is better than a just war"
Cicero, Philosopher
Cicero
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"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Aristotle
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"
Plato, Philosopher
Plato
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"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"
Confucius, Philosopher
Confucius
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"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Albert Camus
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
Karl Marx
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"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
Blaise Pascal
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Sin is geographical"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
Charles de Montesquieu
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact"
William James, Philosopher
William James
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