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- Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
- The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has…
- Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual…
- With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time…
- Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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