Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"De omnibus dubitandum"
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."
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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
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"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
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"Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
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"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
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"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
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"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
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"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
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"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
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