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Letter "P" » philosophers
«The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.»
Author: Graham Greene
| About:
Relationships,
Truth
| Keywords:
Human Relations, philosophers, pursue, relations, symbol
«When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man»
Author: Diogenes
(Founder, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contemptible, look upon, philosophers, priests, Prophets, seaman, seamen, wisest
«The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.»
Author: Elias Canetti
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disappears, palm, philosophers, profoundest, trickle, trickled, trickles, trickling
«We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Education,
Freedom
| Keywords:
educated, free people, must not, ought, philosophers
«The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, fabrication, philosophers, platonic, Pythagorean, The Christian, trinity
«What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
origin, philosophers, the Origin
«We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.»
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