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Category: philosophy

Posted on January 29, 2023

“The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

“Good begets good.”—Irish proverb

Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”—Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, 1571-1630

Posted on December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

“God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”—Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, 1942-2018

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on November 19, 2022November 19, 2022

“There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, 1883-1955

Posted on October 26, 2022October 25, 2022

“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”—Sallust, Roman historian, 86 BC–c.35 BC

Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022

“Nobody learns no nothing from no history.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band; in ‘Avenue B’ from “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike” album

Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”—George Smith Patton, U.S. Army general, 1885-1945

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