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Confucius
-551 - -479It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Hannah Arendt
1906 - 1975The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the...
Henry David Thoreau
1817 - 1862Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 - 1980If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
Laozi
-604When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Michel Foucault
1926 - 1984People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do d...
Plato
427 - 347Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Alan Watts
1915 - 1973Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alasdair MacIntyre
1929To possess a character is to be able to consciously work on a complex and frequently changing system of dispositions and...
Alfred North Whitehead
1861 - 1947Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background.
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 - 1860Life is a constant process of dying.
Boethius
480 - 524The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Byung-Chul Han
1959Transparency is the new form of control.