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Posted on September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”—Gustave Flaubert. French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

“You cannot conceive the many without the one.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348

Posted on August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

“Hope is a waking dream.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on August 1, 2021August 1, 2021

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”—Carl Sagan, American astronomer, 1934-1996

Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021

“A great fortune is a great slavery.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC-65 AD

Posted on June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

“The tendency of Man’s nature to God is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.”—Mencius, Chinese philosopher, 372-289 BC

Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BCE

Posted on May 8, 2021

“The great goal of life is not knowledge but action.”—Thomas Huxley, English biologist, 1825-1895

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