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Philosophers and thinkers
Confucius
-551 - -479To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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 - 1862Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 - 1980Man is condemned to be free.
Laozi
-604A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Michel Foucault
1926 - 1984I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone els...
Plato
427 - 347Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Abdolkarim Soroush
1945To follow blindly is far worse than error.
Adam Ferguson
1723 - 1816Men are the creatures of circumstances.
Adam Smith
1723 - 1790The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Weishaupt
1748 - 1830See, in this world, there are things that are useful and things that are useless; now we can't be wasting time over the ...
Ai Er Dun Sai Na
1905 - 1980Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Ai Mi Huai En Hao Si
1910 - 1985Life has no meaning a priori; before you come alive, life is nothing; it's up to you to give it a meaning.