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Western Siddhars, the Sages of Wisdom |
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PLATO |
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"Until
Philosophers are kings, or kings have the spirit
of Philosophy, cities will never have rest from their
troubles." |
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ARISTOTLE |
"If it is in our power to act nobly,
it is also in our power to do evil."
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EPICURUS |
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"No
pleasure is a bad thing in itself"
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CICERO |
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"Virtue
is the foundation of friendship" |
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MARCUS
AURELIUS |
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"...We
live but for a moment" |
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SEVERINUS BOETHIUS
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"The
good are always strong"
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DESIDERIUS ERASMUS |
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"Fortune favours the fool." |
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THOMAS
MORE |
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"All
princes have more delights in warlike matters... than in
the good feats of peace" |
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NICOLAUS
COPERNICUS |
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"Therefore the earth is not flat." |
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FRANCIS
BACON |
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"if a
man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall
end in certainties."
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REN'E DESCARTE |
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"Cogito, ergo sum" [I think, therefore I am] |
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THOMAS HOBBES |
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"...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
short" |
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BLAISE PASCAL |
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"Man
is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he
is a thinking reed." |
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BARUCH SPINOZA |
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ISAAC
NEWTON |
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"I am
only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of
truth lie undiscovered before me." |
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JOHN LOCKE |
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"I
have always thought the actions of men the best
interpreters of their thoughts" |
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GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ |
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"the soul is the mirror of the universe"
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GEORGE BERKELEY |
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DAVID HUME |
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"It is
never possible to deduce judgements of value from
matters of fact" |
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JEAN_JACQUES
ROUSSEAU |
"Man was born free,
and everywhere he is in irons." |
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IMMANUEL KANT |
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"Reason
is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the
sciences" |
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THOMAS PAINE |
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary
evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT |
"I do not wish them
to have power over men; but over themselves." |
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G.W.F.HEGEL |
"God is the
absolute truth." |
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
"A man is a
god in ruins." |
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