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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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science
life
misattributed-to-kant
paraphrasing-herbert-spencer
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017f2c0
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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life-is-evil
schopenhauer
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
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philosophy
truth
philosopher
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave. In the beginning of all cultures a strong religious faith conceals and softens the nature of things, and gives men courage to bear pain and hardship patiently; at every step the gods are with them, and will not let them perish, until they do. Even then a firm faith will explain that it was th..
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yqwl shwbnhwr: lshy yb`th fyn lnsjm 'kthr mn lm`rf@ ldqyq@, wklm zddn m`rf@ l`wTfn klm qlWt syTrth `lyn. wlshy yHmyn 'kthr mn lsyTr@ `l~ nfwsn, fdh 'rdt 'n tkhD` kl shy lnfsk 'khD` nfsk l`qlk. n qhr l`lm l ythyr fyn l`jb km ythyrh qhr nfsh
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Grow strong, my comrade ... that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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inspirational
wife
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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socialism
wealth
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84faffb
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you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."
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33ad4de
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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3ca19a9
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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418f97b
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Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states protected by geographic situation, and as yet unspoiled and untorn with wealth; in general "men are rarely worthy to govern themselves." Republics are transient at best; they are the first form of society, arising from the union of families; the A..
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politics
republic
development
egalitarianism
economics
monarchy
government
voltaire
democracy
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cb2e4b6
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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80bdc7a
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Will Durant |
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9104a67
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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f7f8d53
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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6eb2f86
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a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean
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Will Durant |
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2d31635
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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Will Durant |
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79714ff
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.
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Will Durant |
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82e2dd2
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Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.
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Will Durant |
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5c70b94
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Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.
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Will Durant |
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1d06535
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Man is as young as the risks he takes.
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Will Durant |
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79ccc00
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Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth.
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Will Durant |
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b240d00
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It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.
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Will Durant |
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3d81409
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She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore.
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Will Durant |
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d233c8d
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A man is as old as his arteries, and as young as his ideas.
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d363f38
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Space, subjectively, is the coexistence of perceptions -- perceiving two objects at once.
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Will Durant |
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041c233
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Time, subjectively, is the conscious sequence of perceptions.
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Will Durant |
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3b7aad7
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By mind I mean the totality of perceptions, memories and ideas in an organism.
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Will Durant |
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e9e5372
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A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.
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