{"id": 28009, "lang": "en", "text": "Never memorize something that you can look up.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28013, "lang": "en", "text": "Any fool can know. The point is to understand.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28021, "lang": "en", "text": "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28028, "lang": "en", "text": "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28029, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28033, "lang": "en", "text": "Black holes are where God divided by zero.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28041, "lang": "en", "text": "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28044, "lang": "en", "text": "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28051, "lang": "en", "text": "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28053, "lang": "en", "text": "We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28064, "lang": "en", "text": "Imagination is the highest form of research.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28076, "lang": "en", "text": "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28083, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28088, "lang": "en", "text": "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28100, "lang": "en", "text": "The only real valuable thing is intuition.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28105, "lang": "en", "text": "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28109, "lang": "en", "text": "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28110, "lang": "en", "text": "I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28117, "lang": "en", "text": "If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28122, "lang": "en", "text": "No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28124, "lang": "en", "text": "Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28138, "lang": "en", "text": "Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28143, "lang": "en", "text": "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28145, "lang": "en", "text": "Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28150, "lang": "en", "text": "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28153, "lang": "en", "text": "It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28155, "lang": "en", "text": "Force always attracts men of low morality.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28165, "lang": "en", "text": "The human spirit must prevail over technology.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28173, "lang": "en", "text": "Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28174, "lang": "en", "text": "How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28176, "lang": "en", "text": "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28186, "lang": "en", "text": "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28191, "lang": "en", "text": "Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28192, "lang": "en", "text": "Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28203, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28206, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is what stands the test of experience.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28212, "lang": "en", "text": "To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28214, "lang": "en", "text": "Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28220, "lang": "en", "text": "Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28223, "lang": "en", "text": "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28233, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing known as 'Perfect'. It's only those imperfections which we choose not to see!", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28239, "lang": "en", "text": "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 28242, "lang": "en", "text": "If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "author_slug": "alberteinstein", "school": "humanism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 48000, "lang": "en", "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 48009, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 48106, "lang": "en", "text": "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 48145, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 48164, "lang": "en", "text": "Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 48273, "lang": "en", "text": "The question is not what you look at, but what you see.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 48286, "lang": "en", "text": "However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 48342, "lang": "en", "text": "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 48346, "lang": "en", "text": "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 48361, "lang": "en", "text": "There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 48385, "lang": "en", "text": "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 48415, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 48421, "lang": "en", "text": "Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 48436, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 48476, "lang": "en", "text": "I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 48482, "lang": "en", "text": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 48520, "lang": "en", "text": "Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 48612, "lang": "en", "text": "I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 48618, "lang": "en", "text": "Things do not change; we change.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 48643, "lang": "en", "text": "When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 50002, "lang": "en", "text": "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 50004, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 50009, "lang": "en", "text": "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 50026, "lang": "en", "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 50028, "lang": "en", "text": "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 50033, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 50051, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 50052, "lang": "en", "text": "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 50057, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 50099, "lang": "en", "text": "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 50100, "lang": "en", "text": "Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 50106, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 60011, "lang": "en", "text": "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 60026, "lang": "en", "text": "Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 60039, "lang": "en", "text": "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 60051, "lang": "en", "text": "A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 62023, "lang": "en", "text": "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62069, "lang": "en", "text": "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 62102, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 62155, "lang": "en", "text": "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 62159, "lang": "en", "text": "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62274, "lang": "en", "text": "I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 62275, "lang": "en", "text": "Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 62364, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62386, "lang": "en", "text": "Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 62396, "lang": "en", "text": "He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 62425, "lang": "en", "text": "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 62467, "lang": "en", "text": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62472, "lang": "en", "text": "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 62497, "lang": "en", "text": "Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 62537, "lang": "en", "text": "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 62620, "lang": "en", "text": "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62628, "lang": "en", "text": "Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 62686, "lang": "en", "text": "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 62725, "lang": "en", "text": "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 62735, "lang": "en", "text": "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 62769, "lang": "en", "text": "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 62773, "lang": "en", "text": "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 62778, "lang": "en", "text": "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 62781, "lang": "en", "text": "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 62797, "lang": "en", "text": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 62812, "lang": "en", "text": "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 62827, "lang": "en", "text": "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 62844, "lang": "en", "text": "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 62872, "lang": "en", "text": "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 62898, "lang": "en", "text": "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 62919, "lang": "en", "text": "Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 62950, "lang": "en", "text": "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 62976, "lang": "en", "text": "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 66023, "lang": "en", "text": "The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 66028, "lang": "en", "text": "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 66060, "lang": "en", "text": "The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 66061, "lang": "en", "text": "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 66067, "lang": "en", "text": "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 66093, "lang": "en", "text": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 66101, "lang": "en", "text": "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 66118, "lang": "en", "text": "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 66121, "lang": "en", "text": "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 66158, "lang": "en", "text": "Dreams are the touchstones of our character.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 66201, "lang": "en", "text": "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 66212, "lang": "en", "text": "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 66231, "lang": "en", "text": "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 66232, "lang": "en", "text": "Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 68095, "lang": "en", "text": "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 68101, "lang": "en", "text": "Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 68102, "lang": "en", "text": "If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 68106, "lang": "en", "text": "Correction does much, but encouragement does more.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 68200, "lang": "en", "text": "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 68207, "lang": "en", "text": "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 68237, "lang": "en", "text": "Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 68243, "lang": "en", "text": "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 68250, "lang": "en", "text": "Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 68260, "lang": "en", "text": "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 68285, "lang": "en", "text": "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 70003, "lang": "en", "text": "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 70034, "lang": "en", "text": "Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 70091, "lang": "en", "text": "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 80004, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 80005, "lang": "en", "text": "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 82024, "lang": "en", "text": "When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 82030, "lang": "en", "text": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 110002, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 110118, "lang": "en", "text": "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 110123, "lang": "en", "text": "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 110156, "lang": "en", "text": "Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 110160, "lang": "en", "text": "He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 112026, "lang": "en", "text": "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 113105, "lang": "en", "text": "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 114003, "lang": "en", "text": "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114004, "lang": "en", "text": "The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114005, "lang": "en", "text": "Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114008, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of the superior man is truth.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114009, "lang": "en", "text": "The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114011, "lang": "en", "text": "When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114012, "lang": "en", "text": "People with virtue must speak out People who speak are not all virtuous.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114013, "lang": "en", "text": "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114015, "lang": "en", "text": "With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114018, "lang": "en", "text": "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114019, "lang": "en", "text": "If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114022, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114023, "lang": "en", "text": "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114024, "lang": "en", "text": "Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114025, "lang": "en", "text": "Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114026, "lang": "en", "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114027, "lang": "en", "text": "Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114032, "lang": "en", "text": "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 114062, "lang": "en", "text": "All people are the same; only their habits differ.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114063, "lang": "en", "text": "A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 114064, "lang": "en", "text": "Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 114075, "lang": "en", "text": "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 114080, "lang": "en", "text": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 114093, "lang": "en", "text": "As long as you live, keep learning how to live.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 114125, "lang": "en", "text": "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 114189, "lang": "en", "text": "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 114238, "lang": "en", "text": "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 114312, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 114353, "lang": "en", "text": "The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 114368, "lang": "en", "text": "The unexamined life is not worth living.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 114371, "lang": "en", "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 114424, "lang": "en", "text": "One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114430, "lang": "en", "text": "If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 114439, "lang": "en", "text": "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114442, "lang": "en", "text": "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114443, "lang": "en", "text": "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114444, "lang": "en", "text": "Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114445, "lang": "en", "text": "The only object of pure reason is to discover the fundamental principles of moral laws.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114446, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is enlightened seeks freedom only so that he can maintain himself in his freedom.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114447, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is nothing else than practical reason.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114449, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea of freedom arises when we reflect on the fact that we are rational beings.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114450, "lang": "en", "text": "The moral law commands that we should act in such a way that the will could regard the maxim of our action as a universal law.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114451, "lang": "en", "text": "The sum of the matter is this: that the will is not merely subject to the law, but subject to it in such a way that it must be regarded as also giving the law to itself.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114453, "lang": "en", "text": "The moral worth of an action does not lie in the purpose intended by it, but in the maxim according to which the action is done.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114454, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is determined by nothing other than the moral law.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 114457, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is my representation.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114459, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth passes into history and history becomes heresy.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114463, "lang": "en", "text": "Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114464, "lang": "en", "text": "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114465, "lang": "en", "text": "Every possession and every person is but lent to us for a time; therefore, the wise man holds to everything lightly.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114466, "lang": "en", "text": "The two elements of the drama of human life are time and error.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114469, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of follies is common sense.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114470, "lang": "en", "text": "The ethical significance of an action lies solely in the intention of the agent.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 114473, "lang": "en", "text": "The real is rational, and the rational is real.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114475, "lang": "en", "text": "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114476, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the recognition of necessity.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114477, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114478, "lang": "en", "text": "The living substance is being which is truly subject, or, what is the same, is truly actual only in so far as it is the object of its own knowing.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114480, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of government is that of all systematic knowledge, truth, not custom, or the mere opinion of this or that.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114481, "lang": "en", "text": "Self-consciousness is Desire in general.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114484, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of the world spirit is to know itself in its otherness.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114486, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is not an abstraction, but the concrete totality of all that is.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114487, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is to comprehend what is.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114490, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all that is.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114491, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the universe is spirit.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114492, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the truth of all that is.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 114494, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114495, "lang": "en", "text": "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114496, "lang": "en", "text": "If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114497, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114498, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114499, "lang": "en", "text": "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114500, "lang": "en", "text": "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114501, "lang": "en", "text": "If I know myself, I know others.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114502, "lang": "en", "text": "The person of highest courage is the one who overcomes his own self.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114503, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to learn is to live.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114504, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114506, "lang": "en", "text": "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114508, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk when it should run.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114509, "lang": "en", "text": "The height of happiness is to be blind to your own blessings.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114510, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114511, "lang": "en", "text": "The person who has lost his way has no need of a critic, but of a helper.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114512, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114514, "lang": "en", "text": "The person who gains experience at the cost of someone else's pain can be truly regarded as a scoundrel.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114515, "lang": "en", "text": "The person who talks much and laughs much, though he says and does nothing wise, is yet well employed, for he cheers others and is cheered himself.", "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "author_slug": "goethe", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1832}
{"id": 114518, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is nothing but a continuous transformation of energy.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114520, "lang": "en", "text": "The height of a man's success is gauged by his opposition — those who do not oppose him do not understand him.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114521, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who has affections, passions, and feelings is not therefor to be esteemed less wise or less reasonable.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114522, "lang": "en", "text": "The beautiful is a moral category.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114523, "lang": "en", "text": "The true friend is a man who can indulge you in your follies, confirm you in your reason, and increase you in virtue.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114525, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet, the creator of the world in which he lives, is a god.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114527, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a changing kaleidoscope of images.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114528, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114529, "lang": "en", "text": "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 114531, "lang": "en", "text": "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114532, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114533, "lang": "en", "text": "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114534, "lang": "en", "text": "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114535, "lang": "en", "text": "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114536, "lang": "en", "text": "The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons, material force can only be overthrown by material force.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114537, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114539, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114542, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114543, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has resolved personal worth into exchange value.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 114569, "lang": "en", "text": "To articulate the past historically... means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114570, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114571, "lang": "en", "text": "The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant of its recognizability, and is never seen again.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114572, "lang": "en", "text": "History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogenous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114573, "lang": "en", "text": "The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114574, "lang": "en", "text": "The angel of history must inevitably perceive the modern world as a pile of debris.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114575, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the translator consists in this: to find, for each important text, that language toward which it is most strongly impelled.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114576, "lang": "en", "text": "Translation is a form. To comprehend it as a form one must go back to the original, for that contains the law governing the translation.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114577, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest task for a translator is to make the meaning of a text appear as if it had originally been written in the translator's language.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114578, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea of progress in historical events is gratifying to the Western mind.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114579, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of storytelling is coming to an end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114580, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114581, "lang": "en", "text": "The birth of the novel is tied to the rise of the bourgeois class.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114582, "lang": "en", "text": "Criticism is a desk-bound sister of revolution.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114583, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the critic is to crush in the germ any opinion which flatters the tastes of the time.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114585, "lang": "en", "text": "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114586, "lang": "en", "text": "The aura of the work of art is the unique phenomenon of distance, no matter how close it may be.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114589, "lang": "en", "text": "The logical outcome of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114590, "lang": "en", "text": "The masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114591, "lang": "en", "text": "The distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114593, "lang": "en", "text": "The whole sphere of culture is invaded by that which is reproduced.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 114617, "lang": "en", "text": "The present is big with the future.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 114618, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul acts according to the laws of final causes through appetition, ends, and means.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 114619, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul follows its own laws, and yet it follows the laws of nature.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 114623, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is never entirely determined.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 114640, "lang": "en", "text": "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114642, "lang": "en", "text": "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114643, "lang": "en", "text": "The meaning of a word is its use in the language.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114644, "lang": "en", "text": "A picture is a fact.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114646, "lang": "en", "text": "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114647, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of language, language as such, is the essence of all description.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114648, "lang": "en", "text": "If you understand everything, then you understand nothing.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114650, "lang": "en", "text": "The human body is the best picture of the human soul.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114651, "lang": "en", "text": "The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114652, "lang": "en", "text": "The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114653, "lang": "en", "text": "We feel that even when all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114654, "lang": "en", "text": "The difficulty is to realize the groundlessness of our believing.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114655, "lang": "en", "text": "Understanding a sentence is much more akin to understanding a theme in music than one may think.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114658, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is independent of my will.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114659, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of logic is shown in facts, not by facts.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114660, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is everything that is the case.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 114685, "lang": "en", "text": "In the end, there is nothing to do but to love one another, to have the courage to embrace one another, and to take comfort in that.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114686, "lang": "en", "text": "We need the courage to blow up our bridges and to burn our boats, so that we can no longer return to the familiar and the comfortable.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114687, "lang": "en", "text": "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114688, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114689, "lang": "en", "text": "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we make it exist.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114690, "lang": "en", "text": "The meaning of life is that it stops.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114691, "lang": "en", "text": "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114692, "lang": "en", "text": "We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114695, "lang": "en", "text": "I have the true feeling of fellow-citizenship in a republic of my own creation.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114697, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a memory come alive.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114698, "lang": "en", "text": "I am made of literature, I am nothing else and I have no joy in anything else.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114699, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a cage, in search of a bird.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 114700, "lang": "en", "text": "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning people.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114702, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is the mistress of truth, but truth is a capricious lady.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114704, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a strange place; it is not what one would think it to be.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114705, "lang": "en", "text": "The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or any grace received.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114706, "lang": "en", "text": "The future is a thing that everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114707, "lang": "en", "text": "The past is like a ghost; it haunts us, but it cannot harm us.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 114708, "lang": "en", "text": "The world becomes a fragment, the more we know of it.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114709, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is really homesickness, the wish to be at home everywhere.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114710, "lang": "en", "text": "The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114711, "lang": "en", "text": "We are near waking when we dream.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114712, "lang": "en", "text": "Every disease is a musical problem; its cure is a harmony.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114714, "lang": "en", "text": "The true philosopher is a man who has the power to make you feel that what he experiences is the most important thing in the world and that you, too, should stand in wonder at it.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114715, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a secret which the earnest, the sincere, and the humble, will recognize by means of a universal language, which no idleness, no arrogance, no levity can master.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114718, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114720, "lang": "en", "text": "The true philosopher is he who, like Socrates, is never at rest, never satisfied, and always in search of something.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114721, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great mystery, and the more we know of it, the greater the mystery.", "author": "Novalis", "author_slug": "novalis", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1801}
{"id": 114722, "lang": "en", "text": "Where are we going? I do not know where we come from, where we are going. But the sky is blue, and over there on the mountains it looks like spring.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114724, "lang": "en", "text": "But man is a god when he dreams, and a lie when he is awake.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114725, "lang": "en", "text": "Poetry is the most naive and the most artificial of all forms of expression.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114726, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not far from us, and the eternal is not far from the soul.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114728, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest would be most like a game, most like innocent playfulness.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114729, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the priest of the invisible.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 114732, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a creature who needs to justify his actions.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114733, "lang": "en", "text": "Not sumptuous buildings, nor fine clothes, nor splendid furniture, nor gourmet food, nor well-trained servants, but only something entirely different, and indeed something in a sense purely personal, can serve as proof of the style of life which defines the status of the truly well-born.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114734, "lang": "en", "text": "The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.'", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114736, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is that human community that (successfully) lays claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a particular territory.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114737, "lang": "en", "text": "The fate of an epoch which has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must know that we cannot learn the meaning of the world from the results of its analysis, be it ever so perfect.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114738, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern capitalist economy is an immense cosmos into which the individual is born, and which presents itself to him, at least as an individual, as an unalterable order of things.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114739, "lang": "en", "text": "The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114740, "lang": "en", "text": "The spirit of capitalism must be understood as the spirit of a system of economic activity.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114741, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea of freedom is central to the modern conception of the state.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114742, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern state is a compulsory political organization with continuous operations.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114744, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern state is a product of a very special and by no means an inevitable development.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114745, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern state is based on the idea of the legal equality of all its citizens.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114746, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern state is characterized by its rational-legal authority.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 114752, "lang": "en", "text": "A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114753, "lang": "en", "text": "The most dangerous untruths are the ones we think we know.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114754, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all instruments ending in the hands of the unknown, which sounds a few notes and casts us aside.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114756, "lang": "en", "text": "The most perfect knowledge of a thing is to know its true end and use.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114759, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114761, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of clever people who are all capable of explaining success but very few can accurately explain failure, which is more interesting.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114763, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114764, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114765, "lang": "en", "text": "The most dangerous form of ignorance is the ignorance of how much you do not know.", "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg", "author_slug": "georg-christoph-lichtenberg", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1799}
{"id": 114769, "lang": "en", "text": "God is nothing else but the idealized nature of man.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 114771, "lang": "en", "text": "Man makes religion, religion does not make man.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 114772, "lang": "en", "text": "The first step in the emancipation of the mind is the recognition of the fact that religion is a human product.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 114774, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is contained in the essence of thought.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 114775, "lang": "en", "text": "The true essence of man is not an abstract idea, but a concrete reality.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 114777, "lang": "en", "text": "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114778, "lang": "en", "text": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114779, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man must not wish to be fully understood, lest he cease to be loved.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114780, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul's highest duty is to be in that order of things which makes for the greatest beauty, the greatest power, the greatest truth, the greatest love.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114781, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114782, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to have a friend is to be one.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114783, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to the next generation.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114785, "lang": "en", "text": "The only true law is that which accords with the right reason and is in conformity with those rules of conduct which the nature of things has prescribed for the guidance of the human race.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 114788, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114793, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature made men happy and good, but society depraves them and makes them miserable.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114794, "lang": "en", "text": "The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114795, "lang": "en", "text": "The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine,' and found people naive enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114796, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by very different maxims from those which are studied in academies.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114797, "lang": "en", "text": "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114798, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst kind of slavery is to be governed by your own vices.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114799, "lang": "en", "text": "The most ancient of all societies, and the only one that is natural, is the family.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114803, "lang": "en", "text": "The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the spirit of party.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114805, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst situation I have found myself in is to stand well with both parties at once.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114806, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who knows nothing doubts nothing.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114807, "lang": "en", "text": "The first step towards philosophy is inquiry; and this is best done by doubting.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114809, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst kind of tyranny is to be ruled by your own desires.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114811, "lang": "en", "text": "The first virtue of a public man is to despise public opinion.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114812, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of people who are good at heart but who are not good for much.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 114815, "lang": "en", "text": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114816, "lang": "en", "text": "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114818, "lang": "en", "text": "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114819, "lang": "en", "text": "The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114821, "lang": "en", "text": "The best part of a man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114822, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he knows his own ignorance.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114823, "lang": "en", "text": "Fortune is like the market: it will have its own way; it is enough to know the prices, and not to force the sale.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114825, "lang": "en", "text": "The cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114827, "lang": "en", "text": "The world's a school of ages, and the life of man but days.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114828, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to make children good is to make them happy.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114829, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more mysteries he finds.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 114830, "lang": "en", "text": "All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114831, "lang": "en", "text": "The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114832, "lang": "en", "text": "Where there is no law, there is no freedom.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114833, "lang": "en", "text": "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114834, "lang": "en", "text": "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114835, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding, like the eye, judging of objects only by its own sight, cannot but be pleased with what it discovers, having less regret for what has escaped it because it is unknown.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114836, "lang": "en", "text": "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114837, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114838, "lang": "en", "text": "He that in the state of nature would take away the freedom that is the birthright of us all, merely because he is afraid that some fraudulent person may abuse it, has not the courage of a man.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114839, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114840, "lang": "en", "text": "It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114841, "lang": "en", "text": "The power that every man has over his own life and liberty, and over all the possessions he has, or can acquire by that liberty.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114842, "lang": "en", "text": "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114843, "lang": "en", "text": "I know not whether we are now in a world where only the cruel are kind.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114844, "lang": "en", "text": "The great question which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disturbed the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be powers above us, and whether they take care of human affairs, but to whom of those powers we are to be subject.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114845, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114846, "lang": "en", "text": "He that would give law to others, may allow himself to break them.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114847, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of government is the good of mankind.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114848, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of a magistrate over a subject is so far from being absolute, that he is as much bounded from doing evil to a private man, by the laws as he is from doing it to the public.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114849, "lang": "en", "text": "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114851, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of perpetuity is not easily granted.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114853, "lang": "en", "text": "The great rule of morality is the preservation of the species.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114854, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not a tabula rasa at birth: it contains all possible ideas, though in a confused state.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114855, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 114856, "lang": "en", "text": "I think, therefore I am.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114857, "lang": "en", "text": "Cogito, ergo sum.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114859, "lang": "en", "text": "Doubt is the origin of wisdom.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114860, "lang": "en", "text": "The first precept was never to accept anything as true if I did not recognize it to be evidently true.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114862, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not merely present in the body like a pilot in a ship, but very closely joined and as it were intermingled with the body.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114863, "lang": "en", "text": "The error in judgment is not a corruption of the intellect, but a privation of knowledge.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114864, "lang": "en", "text": "I have never been able to recognize any other foundation of the rules of morality.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114865, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114866, "lang": "en", "text": "The perception of the mind is not an act of faith but an act of understanding.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114867, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is by nature clearer than the body, just as mind is clearer than matter.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114868, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know God, the more we know ourselves.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 114870, "lang": "en", "text": "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114871, "lang": "en", "text": "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114873, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114874, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we examine this sentiment, the more we shall find, that it proceeds from the love of virtue, and the hatred of vice.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114875, "lang": "en", "text": "The only solid basis of morality is utility.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114876, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114877, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing is more suitable to the greatness of man than a constant pleasure in his own virtue.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114878, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the mind is to think, and the essence of the body is to be extended.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114879, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination of man is naturally subservient or slave to his passions.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114880, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114882, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is a system of different perceptions or different existences, which are linked together by the relation of cause and effect.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114883, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man esteems the judgment of the people, only so far as it is well-founded.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 114884, "lang": "en", "text": "The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114885, "lang": "en", "text": "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114886, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to make children virtuous is to make them happy.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114887, "lang": "en", "text": "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114888, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not the work of one man that makes the greatness of a people, but the work of all.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114891, "lang": "en", "text": "The best constitution is that which is most likely to preserve the liberty of the subject.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114892, "lang": "en", "text": "The liberty of the subject is not safe, where the legislative and executive power are in the same hands.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114893, "lang": "en", "text": "The more the means of communication are diversified, the more the state is free.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114894, "lang": "en", "text": "The more the state is free, the more the people will be inclined to peace.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 114895, "lang": "en", "text": "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114896, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114897, "lang": "en", "text": "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114898, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important thing is to know how to take things lightly.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114899, "lang": "en", "text": "The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114900, "lang": "en", "text": "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, while we angrily dispute the truth that is ungrateful.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114901, "lang": "en", "text": "The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114902, "lang": "en", "text": "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114903, "lang": "en", "text": "The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114905, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114906, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all born serene; it is society that makes us miserable.", "author": "Denis Diderot", "author_slug": "diderot", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1784}
{"id": 114908, "lang": "en", "text": "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114909, "lang": "en", "text": "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114910, "lang": "en", "text": "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114911, "lang": "en", "text": "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114912, "lang": "en", "text": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114913, "lang": "en", "text": "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114916, "lang": "en", "text": "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114917, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114918, "lang": "en", "text": "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114921, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114922, "lang": "en", "text": "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114923, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114924, "lang": "en", "text": "The earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114926, "lang": "en", "text": "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114929, "lang": "en", "text": "The best government is that which governs least.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114930, "lang": "en", "text": "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114931, "lang": "en", "text": "The most successful war ought not to be followed by the destruction of the conquered.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114932, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural rights of man are to live freely and to pursue happiness.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114933, "lang": "en", "text": "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114934, "lang": "en", "text": "The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 114935, "lang": "en", "text": "These are the times that try men's souls.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114936, "lang": "en", "text": "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114937, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114939, "lang": "en", "text": "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114940, "lang": "en", "text": "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114941, "lang": "en", "text": "The right of a man to his own religious or philosophical opinions is beyond all question.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114942, "lang": "en", "text": "The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114943, "lang": "en", "text": "The basis of all political power, is in the mind of the people.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114944, "lang": "en", "text": "The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114945, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to the progress of the human race is the assumption that progress has reached its limit.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114946, "lang": "en", "text": "The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to part with them.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114947, "lang": "en", "text": "The best arguments will not convince a man who does not wish to be convinced.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114948, "lang": "en", "text": "The most powerful weapon on earth is the executive arm of the government.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114950, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 114968, "lang": "en", "text": "Above all things, reverence yourself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114969, "lang": "en", "text": "As long as man continues to be the ruthless animal for whom he has been hitherto, there will be no salvation for him.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114970, "lang": "en", "text": "Be silent, or say something better than silence.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114972, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not talk a great deal; say only what is necessary, and be brief. In this way you will avoid many blunders.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114973, "lang": "en", "text": "Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114974, "lang": "en", "text": "First, purify yourself, then purify your neighbor.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114975, "lang": "en", "text": "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114978, "lang": "en", "text": "In the beginning there was chaos, then came the divine order.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114980, "lang": "en", "text": "Let no one enter who is ignorant of geometry.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114981, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a measure of all things.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114982, "lang": "en", "text": "Men should live as if they expect to live forever.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114983, "lang": "en", "text": "No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114984, "lang": "en", "text": "Numbers rule the universe.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114987, "lang": "en", "text": "The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114988, "lang": "en", "text": "The way up and the way down are one and the same.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114990, "lang": "en", "text": "To study the phenomena of the universe is to study the nature of a single element in the universe.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114991, "lang": "en", "text": "We come into the world possessed by nothing, and depart, leaving nothing behind.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 114994, "lang": "en", "text": "The measure of a man is what he does with power.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 114997, "lang": "en", "text": "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 114998, "lang": "en", "text": "We are in the habit of making light of evils that are at a distance.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 114999, "lang": "en", "text": "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115000, "lang": "en", "text": "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115001, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing granted to mankind comes by way of madness, which is a divine gift.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115002, "lang": "en", "text": "There are two things a philosopher ought to carry about with him, a provision against the supineness of old age and the wild beast within him.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115004, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul takes care of all these and treats them as they need.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115005, "lang": "en", "text": "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115006, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who makes everything that he can reach his own, would be a god, not a man.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115008, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest form of inequality comes from trying to make unequal things equal.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 115012, "lang": "en", "text": "Wit is educated insolence.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115013, "lang": "en", "text": "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115015, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is to be a useful member of society must be able either to do or to teach some particular thing.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115016, "lang": "en", "text": "The energy of the mind is the essence of life.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115017, "lang": "en", "text": "The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115018, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115019, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul never thinks without a mental picture.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115020, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is in a way all that it knows.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115021, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the first principle of animal life.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115022, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all sensible qualities.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115023, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the cause of the living body.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115025, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the first grade of actuality of a natural body which has life potentially.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 115028, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115029, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not the man who has too little, but he who craves more, that is poor.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115031, "lang": "en", "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115032, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115033, "lang": "en", "text": "Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115034, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always glad to learn; indeed, he is never less so than when he is old.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115035, "lang": "en", "text": "The just man is the most free from disturbance; but the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115036, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble man is contented with what he has.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115037, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is a skilful measurer of his desires, and in all his desires he is sober-minded.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115038, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing for mankind is that which brings the greatest freedom from disturbance.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115039, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always cheerful.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115040, "lang": "en", "text": "The just man is the most self-sufficient and the easiest to content.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115042, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest good is self-sufficiency.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115044, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil is pain.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115046, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest pleasure is the absence of pain.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115047, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the most courageous of men.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115048, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest pleasure is to be free from bodily pains and mental disturbances.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115049, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the most temperate of men.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115059, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the most self-sufficient of men.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115061, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the most contented of men.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115064, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest pleasure is to be free from fear of the present.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 115067, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding everything but the reason within you which bears witness that, being rational, you were born to command; and that, being noble, you were not born to be a slave.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115068, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115071, "lang": "en", "text": "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115072, "lang": "en", "text": "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115073, "lang": "en", "text": "Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115074, "lang": "en", "text": "He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115075, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115076, "lang": "en", "text": "It is impossible for the same thing to be both good and evil.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115078, "lang": "en", "text": "We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115080, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happens the way it happens, and you will flow with life.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115081, "lang": "en", "text": "The key is to accept that you lack the power to control certain things, and that you have the power to control how you respond to them.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115082, "lang": "en", "text": "The first and only thing that is demanded of good men is that they take no wrong views.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 115085, "lang": "en", "text": "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115087, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115088, "lang": "en", "text": "Life is long if you know how to use it.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115089, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest remedy for anger is delay.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115090, "lang": "en", "text": "No man has been found so wise as to prefer evil to good, yet nearly all men are not wise enough to prefer a greater good to a less.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115092, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115093, "lang": "en", "text": "If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115095, "lang": "en", "text": "Associate with people who will make you better, not those who will make you popular.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115096, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which depends on tomorrow and loses today.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 115097, "lang": "en", "text": "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115098, "lang": "en", "text": "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115099, "lang": "en", "text": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115100, "lang": "en", "text": "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115101, "lang": "en", "text": "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115102, "lang": "en", "text": "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115103, "lang": "en", "text": "If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115106, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death calls you.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115107, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 115109, "lang": "en", "text": "You cannot step into the same river twice.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115110, "lang": "en", "text": "War is the father of all and king of all.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115111, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115112, "lang": "en", "text": "It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115114, "lang": "en", "text": "All things come to pass in accordance with this Logos.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115115, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115117, "lang": "en", "text": "Time is a game played beautifully, by itself.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115119, "lang": "en", "text": "Much learning does not teach understanding.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115120, "lang": "en", "text": "The most beautiful world is like a rubbish heap, scattered at random.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115121, "lang": "en", "text": "The road up and the road down are the same.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115122, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not necessary to take a bath and put on perfume to approach the gods.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115123, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not to be seen, but are to be understood.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115125, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not give advice, he gives the right answers.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 115127, "lang": "en", "text": "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115128, "lang": "en", "text": "No man is rich by what he has, but by what he enjoys.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115129, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115130, "lang": "en", "text": "We must believe that we dwell among the gods.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115131, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115132, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the most intelligent of the animals, yet he is the most difficult to train.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115133, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of man is a dream.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115134, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the causes of things.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115135, "lang": "en", "text": "The good man is content with his lot, whatever it may be.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115136, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy man is he who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115137, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the limits of his knowledge.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115141, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to listen.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115143, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to wait.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115145, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to be silent.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115149, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to live well.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 115151, "lang": "en", "text": "He who does not need anything is the richest man.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115153, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of every state is good education.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115154, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to make a man happy, do not add to his riches but take away from his desires.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115155, "lang": "en", "text": "I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that I may enjoy the sun.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115156, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a lamp that is always lit.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115157, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of being free is the art of living.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115158, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who wants nothing, and everything.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115159, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a dog, and I bark at falsehood.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115160, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a citizen of the world, and my country is the world.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115161, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who has nothing, and I am happy.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115162, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who has nothing, and I am rich.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115163, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who has nothing, and I am free.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115164, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who has nothing, and I am content.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115165, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a man who has nothing, and I am at peace.", "author": "Diogenes of Sinope", "author_slug": "diogenes-of-sinope", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -323}
{"id": 115166, "lang": "en", "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115167, "lang": "en", "text": "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115168, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life makes a man good and wise, but the wise and good life makes a man happy.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115169, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115171, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115172, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature has planted in man the seeds of virtue.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115173, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have a great will.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115174, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115175, "lang": "en", "text": "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115176, "lang": "en", "text": "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115177, "lang": "en", "text": "The more laws, the less justice.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115178, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's own self is the chief ingredient in his happiness.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115179, "lang": "en", "text": "The life which is unexamined is not worth living.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115180, "lang": "en", "text": "We should live, not by other people's standards, but by our own.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115181, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest duty of the wise man is to seek truth.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115182, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115183, "lang": "en", "text": "We should live for the benefit of mankind, and not for our own alone.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115184, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who, in the midst of the greatest difficulties, never forgets his end and purpose in life.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115185, "lang": "en", "text": "The first duty of a man is to know himself.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115186, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest orator is he who can make the truth prevail.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115187, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune with equal mind.", "author": "Cicero", "author_slug": "cicero", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -43}
{"id": 115189, "lang": "en", "text": "We must not think of the soul as something that is in the body, but rather as something that the body is in.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115190, "lang": "en", "text": "The Good is not outside us, but within everyone's soul.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115191, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the form of the body, and the body is the matter of the soul.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115192, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is not a being, but the source of all being.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115193, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of life, and the body is the instrument of life.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115195, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the image of the Intellect.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115196, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is beyond being and non-being.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115197, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of movement and rest.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115200, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is the principle of all things.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115201, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of thought and reason.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115202, "lang": "en", "text": "The Intellect is the principle of order and harmony.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115203, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is the principle of unity and multiplicity.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115204, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of desire and will.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115205, "lang": "en", "text": "The Intellect is the principle of knowledge and wisdom.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115206, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is the principle of beauty and goodness.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115207, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of virtue and happiness.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 115208, "lang": "en", "text": "The good and wise man is only happy.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115209, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is a good flow of life.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115210, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy man is the one who has no fear of death.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115211, "lang": "en", "text": "We are not born once and for all on the day our mother gives birth to us, but life obliges us to give birth to ourselves throughout our life.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115212, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115213, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of life is rest, and rest is our chief good.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115214, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is self-sufficient, for all goods are within him.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115215, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is poor when he has nothing, and rich when he has something.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115216, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always happy.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115217, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not angry with men, but pities them.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115218, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not moved by the vicissitudes of fortune.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115219, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not afraid of death.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115220, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his passions.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115221, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his body.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115222, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his possessions.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115223, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his reputation.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115224, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his country.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115225, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his friends.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115226, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his enemies.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115227, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not a slave to his gods.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 115228, "lang": "en", "text": "Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115229, "lang": "en", "text": "Love, and do what you will.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115230, "lang": "en", "text": "The beginning of wisdom is wonder.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115231, "lang": "en", "text": "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115232, "lang": "en", "text": "Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115233, "lang": "en", "text": "The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115234, "lang": "en", "text": "To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the highest human achievement.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115235, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115236, "lang": "en", "text": "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115237, "lang": "en", "text": "The measure of love is to love without measure.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115238, "lang": "en", "text": "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of great rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115239, "lang": "en", "text": "The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115241, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is that God is to be loved for His own sake, and not that we may gain advantage from Him.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115242, "lang": "en", "text": "Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115243, "lang": "en", "text": "The law was given that grace might be sought, and is obtained.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115244, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind commands the body and is obeyed; the mind commands itself and meets resistance.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115245, "lang": "en", "text": "God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115246, "lang": "en", "text": "The beginning of all sin is pride, and the beginning of all pride is vain-glory.", "author": "Augustine of Hippo", "author_slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 430}
{"id": 115248, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 115249, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 115251, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of the spiritual life is to be alone with God.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 115252, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 115254, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all virtues is humility, which is also the greatest of all commandments.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 115256, "lang": "en", "text": "God is at work in you, may you be at work in Him.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115257, "lang": "en", "text": "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115259, "lang": "en", "text": "Detach yourself from all things, and you will find peace.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115260, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is in the body, but not formed by the body.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115261, "lang": "en", "text": "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115264, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul must turn away from all things and be alone with God in bare nothingness.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115265, "lang": "en", "text": "The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115268, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul must be empty of all creatures to be full of God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115269, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know God, the more you know your own nothingness.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 115272, "lang": "en", "text": "He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115273, "lang": "en", "text": "To philosophize is to learn how to die.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115274, "lang": "en", "text": "A man is always the apprentice in some trade.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115275, "lang": "en", "text": "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115277, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115278, "lang": "en", "text": "I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115279, "lang": "en", "text": "The most universal quality is that of being ungrateful.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115280, "lang": "en", "text": "We need very strongly to be shaken in order to rouse ourselves.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115281, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115282, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul which has no fixed purpose cannot be resolved on anything.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115283, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to learning is certitude.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115285, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of the physician consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 115286, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115288, "lang": "en", "text": "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115290, "lang": "en", "text": "The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115291, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart's only reason is to love.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115292, "lang": "en", "text": "We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115293, "lang": "en", "text": "The least thing upsets me, yet I need hardly anything to make me happy.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115294, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 115295, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115296, "lang": "en", "text": "Man knows more of what is on the moon than what is in his own body.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115297, "lang": "en", "text": "All things are poison and nothing is without poison; the dose alone makes that a thing is not a poison.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115299, "lang": "en", "text": "The sick man is a prisoner, and the physician is the jailer.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115300, "lang": "en", "text": "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115301, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician should not treat the disease but the patient.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115302, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115306, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician must be rich in knowledge, not in wealth.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115307, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest error of a physician is to imagine that he can be useful to his patients.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115309, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician must be a minister of health, not of disease.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115310, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of medicine is to amuse the patient while nature acts.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115311, "lang": "en", "text": "The human body is a garden, and the soul is the gardener.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115312, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician must be a minister of life, not of death.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115313, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of medicine is to keep the patient in health, not to cure him when he is sick.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115314, "lang": "en", "text": "The human body is a microcosm of the macrocosm.", "author": "Paracelsus", "author_slug": "paracelsus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1541}
{"id": 115315, "lang": "en", "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115316, "lang": "en", "text": "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115319, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115321, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, and violent, both good and bad, but it is nothing to our imagination.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115322, "lang": "en", "text": "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115325, "lang": "en", "text": "The years teach much which the days never know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115327, "lang": "en", "text": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115328, "lang": "en", "text": "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115330, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man I meet is in some way my superior.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115331, "lang": "en", "text": "Genius is the auxiliary of nature and supplements her where she is defective.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115332, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is in a pursuit which he loves, neither tires nor tires in it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115337, "lang": "en", "text": "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115338, "lang": "en", "text": "Imagination is not a talent of some men but of all men.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115339, "lang": "en", "text": "In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115340, "lang": "en", "text": "Insist on yourself; never imitate.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115341, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not length of life, but depth of life.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115343, "lang": "en", "text": "Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a pit of unquenchable thirst.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115344, "lang": "en", "text": "Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115345, "lang": "en", "text": "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115346, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115347, "lang": "en", "text": "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115348, "lang": "en", "text": "People only see what they are prepared to see.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115351, "lang": "en", "text": "The orator should be a man, a hero, who is intimately conversant with the subject of his oration.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115352, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home with the truth; and that is the end of traveling.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115353, "lang": "en", "text": "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of making himself more unknown, and known.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115357, "lang": "en", "text": "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115359, "lang": "en", "text": "Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you're saying.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115361, "lang": "en", "text": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115362, "lang": "en", "text": "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 115364, "lang": "en", "text": "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115365, "lang": "en", "text": "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115367, "lang": "en", "text": "As you simplify your direct experience, naturally you come to value what is essential.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115369, "lang": "en", "text": "Disobedience is the original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115370, "lang": "en", "text": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115371, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115373, "lang": "en", "text": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115374, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115375, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is but a canvas to our imagination.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115376, "lang": "en", "text": "I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115377, "lang": "en", "text": "I am convinced that I cannot succor or improve any institution as a conqueror or reformer, but only as a servant or a part of it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115378, "lang": "en", "text": "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115379, "lang": "en", "text": "The law will never make men free; it is men who have to make the law free.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115380, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115381, "lang": "en", "text": "The finest qualities of our nature are not usually shown in purity and perfection, but in imperfection.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115382, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a place of results, or fruit, of causes set ago, and very slowly does the tree bear, and slowly does the wind ripen.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 115383, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115384, "lang": "en", "text": "Belief creates the actual fact.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115386, "lang": "en", "text": "We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115387, "lang": "en", "text": "The only radical remedy I know for dizziness is to sit down.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115388, "lang": "en", "text": "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115389, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115390, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is what it is, not what it ought to be, but what we make it.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115391, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115392, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all ready to be saviors to ourselves, by behaving as if we were not quite such bad as we know ourselves to be.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 115393, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115395, "lang": "en", "text": "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115396, "lang": "en", "text": "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115397, "lang": "en", "text": "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115398, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose minds are cramped and dwarfed by the fear of heresy.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115399, "lang": "en", "text": "The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115400, "lang": "en", "text": "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115402, "lang": "en", "text": "I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 115405, "lang": "en", "text": "You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115406, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115407, "lang": "en", "text": "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115409, "lang": "en", "text": "A man is a suffering and a questioning being and only as such has he known great joys.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115410, "lang": "en", "text": "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115414, "lang": "en", "text": "The world itself is the will to a system of ever more inclusive unities.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115418, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115419, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115422, "lang": "en", "text": "We have art in order not to die of the truth.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115423, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of life is to be defined by yourself.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115425, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must be able to look into the perturbing abysses of every Gorgon and not turn to stone.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115427, "lang": "en", "text": "The demand to be loved is the greatest of all pieces of arrogance.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115428, "lang": "en", "text": "The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115430, "lang": "en", "text": "The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is supposed to be doing.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 115431, "lang": "en", "text": "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115432, "lang": "en", "text": "Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115434, "lang": "en", "text": "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115435, "lang": "en", "text": "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115437, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115439, "lang": "en", "text": "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115441, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115444, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to be boring is to talk about oneself.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115446, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115448, "lang": "en", "text": "We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115450, "lang": "en", "text": "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115451, "lang": "en", "text": "To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also display conviction.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115452, "lang": "en", "text": "The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115453, "lang": "en", "text": "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115454, "lang": "en", "text": "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115455, "lang": "en", "text": "Originality is the one thing that unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115456, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to justify a belief.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115457, "lang": "en", "text": "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 115458, "lang": "en", "text": "I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115459, "lang": "en", "text": "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115460, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest activity a human can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115461, "lang": "en", "text": "Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on the steady habit of the mind and the will.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115462, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand ourselves and our emotions, the more we become aware of the connections that tie us to the universe and the more we feel at home in it.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115463, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest virtue is to live according to one's own nature in a way that is agreeable to nature.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115466, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we unite with other men, the less we are wronged, and the less we fear to be wronged.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115469, "lang": "en", "text": "Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115470, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand things individually, the more we understand God, not only his omnipotence but also his providence.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115472, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we unite ingenero with our neighbors, the more we become capable of uniting with God.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115473, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know ourselves to be a part of nature, the less we feel ourselves to be separated participants.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115474, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we strive to know things by their first causes, the more we strive to understand them adequately.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 115485, "lang": "en", "text": "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115487, "lang": "en", "text": "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115488, "lang": "en", "text": "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115490, "lang": "en", "text": "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115491, "lang": "en", "text": "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115492, "lang": "en", "text": "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115494, "lang": "en", "text": "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115497, "lang": "en", "text": "If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115498, "lang": "en", "text": "Well done is the best enemy of well said.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115500, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach new heights.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115501, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115503, "lang": "en", "text": "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115504, "lang": "en", "text": "Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 115537, "lang": "en", "text": "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115538, "lang": "en", "text": "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115539, "lang": "en", "text": "Purity of heart is to will one thing.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115541, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115545, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115546, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows a person, the more one wishes to test him.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115547, "lang": "en", "text": "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115548, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115549, "lang": "en", "text": "The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115550, "lang": "en", "text": "To dare, to will, to love this is to be a man.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115552, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest task for a human being is to understand what it is to be a human being.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115554, "lang": "en", "text": "To be a teacher does not mean to dogmatize but to make difficult things easy to understand.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115555, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a substance, but a process.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115556, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one has it in his power to seduce, the less one can be seduced.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115557, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of money is to circulate, not to be hoarded.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115558, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest seducer of all is the one who defies all the rules of seduction.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115559, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of human intelligence is to know when you are stupid.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 115627, "lang": "en", "text": "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115628, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is healed by being with children.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115631, "lang": "en", "text": "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, to be able to dare!", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115632, "lang": "en", "text": "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115633, "lang": "en", "text": "If there is no God, everything is permitted.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115635, "lang": "en", "text": "Money is coined liberty and there is no other freedom to be hoped for or expected.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115636, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst thing about the devil is that he always speaks the truth.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115638, "lang": "en", "text": "The formula of human happiness is to live in the state of excitement and to be intoxicated with something.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115639, "lang": "en", "text": "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115640, "lang": "en", "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115641, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest and most important things in the world are never said or even thought, but they happen in silence.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115642, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If one heard nothing but praise all one's life, one would become insufferable; if nothing but reproof, one would be crushed into the earth.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115643, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is far, far deeper than the intellect.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115645, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst thing is not to be in doubt, but to be in doubt and do nothing about it.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 115688, "lang": "en", "text": "Dogma is dead knowledge, religion is knowledge full of life.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115689, "lang": "en", "text": "Religion's great test, to regard men as God's children.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115690, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of religion is neither thinking nor acting, but being.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115694, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of morality is not to be found in any particular code of ethics or system of laws, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115696, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of wisdom is not to be found in any particular system of philosophy or body of knowledge, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115697, "lang": "en", "text": "The true nature of happiness is not to be found in any particular possession or achievement, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115698, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of beauty is not to be found in any particular object or work of art, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115701, "lang": "en", "text": "The true nature of freedom is not to be found in any particular political system or form of government, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115704, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of hope is not to be found in any particular doctrine or creed, but in the inward disposition of the heart.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115707, "lang": "en", "text": "The true nature of Christianity is not to be found in any particular doctrine or creed, but in the inward experience of the divine.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115708, "lang": "en", "text": "The true nature of religion is the sense and taste for the infinite.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115710, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of Christianity is not a system of doctrines, but a life.", "author": "Friedrich Schleiermacher", "author_slug": "friedrich-schleiermacher", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1834}
{"id": 115717, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of history is to understand the unique, the individual, the particular.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115719, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of other men and women is a precondition of the understanding of ourselves.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115720, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is to make the implicit explicit.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115721, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of the individual is the basis for the understanding of the universal.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115723, "lang": "en", "text": "The world in which we live is not a world of things, but a world of meanings.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115724, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of human life is the proper task of philosophy.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115725, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of history is the education of the human race.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115726, "lang": "en", "text": "The past is not dead; it is living in us and will be alive in the future.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115728, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the historian is to understand the past in order to understand the present.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 115731, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is not to be found in what he thinks, but in his thinking itself.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115732, "lang": "en", "text": "The world of myth is not a world of objects and things, but a world of pure meanings.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115733, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of language is not to communicate thoughts, but to create them.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115734, "lang": "en", "text": "The symbol is the tool of tools.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115735, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a symbol-using (and, to be precise, a symbol-creating) animal.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115736, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is not to be found in what he thinks, but in his symbolic activity.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115737, "lang": "en", "text": "The symbol is the means by which man transcends the immediate and achieves the universal.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115738, "lang": "en", "text": "The symbol is the means by which man creates a world of his own.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115739, "lang": "en", "text": "The symbol is the means by which man overcomes the limitations of his physical existence.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 115758, "lang": "en", "text": "To the natural world belongs every being which can, in principle, be an object of natural science, i.e., of a science which looks for the causal nexus of its objects.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115759, "lang": "en", "text": "Every real science is a science of 'essences'; and the task of a rigorous science is to attain to a grasp of the essential necessities.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115760, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a meaningful world, not because it has objects with meanings but because it is an object of my meaning.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115761, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a collection of things in the sense of bodies, but a collection of meanings.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115762, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is not a part of the world, but rather the world is a part of the ego.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115763, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is to transform the world into a meaningful cosmos.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115765, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is not a thing, but a process, a stream of consciousness.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115769, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is infinite; it is an individual, a unique individual, res extensa, of which every real thing is a part.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115770, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a world of individual things, each of which has its own properties and relations to other things.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115776, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a world of becoming, and the task of the natural sciences is to discover and describe the processes of becoming that take place in things.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115784, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a world of teleology, and the task of the natural sciences is to discover and describe the teleological relations of things.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 115792, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the sources of his knowledge, who knows the limits of the logical processes of his mind.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115794, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115796, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is infinite and divine, and there is no God other than the universe itself.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115797, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is one, infinite, immobile.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115798, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a single, infinite whole, without a centre or circumference.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115799, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not infinite in the sense of being endless, but infinite in the sense of being unbounded.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115800, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a finite sphere, but an infinite space in which the stars are scattered.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115801, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the sources of knowledge, who knows how to live, for the use of life is learning.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115803, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is infinite and divine, and it is not possible to find in it a beginning or an end.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 115805, "lang": "en", "text": "Love is a kind of ecstasy, and the presence of the beloved arouses it.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115807, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the sources of wisdom and can tell a good one from a bad one.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115809, "lang": "en", "text": "The opinion of the world does not alter the truth of things.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115810, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul that is controlled by wisdom is the soul of a king.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115811, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest proof of the spirit is love.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115812, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the sources of wisdom and can touch them at will.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 115813, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the intermediary between creatures. Therefore, when he ascribes to himself and to intellectual creatures alone that which is superior, he is deprived of that which is inferior.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 115814, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the intermediary between creatures, partaking of the nature of both life's extremes, divine and bestial, the spiritual and the mortal.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 115815, "lang": "en", "text": "The world of civil society has certainly been made by the human mind, and that only in the way in which it has been made does it achieve completeness of form and a reality truly worthy of the name.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115816, "lang": "en", "text": "Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, then grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115817, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of things is nothing but their birth certificate.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115819, "lang": "en", "text": "The true and the made are convertible.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115820, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one studies the more one finds the wisdom of the ancients to be superior.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115821, "lang": "en", "text": "The first age of nations is the divine, the second the heroic, the third the human, the fourth the of letters.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115823, "lang": "en", "text": "The first thought of man was to find a way to provide for his own preservation.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115824, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of institutions is nothing but our own nature mirrored in the human mind.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115825, "lang": "en", "text": "The true and certain knowledge of a thing consists in the apprehension of its causes and of the manner in which it is generated.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115826, "lang": "en", "text": "The first age of nations is the age of gods, or those who gave laws to mankind.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115827, "lang": "en", "text": "The second age of nations is the age of heroes, or those who founded cities and empires.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115828, "lang": "en", "text": "The third age of nations is the age of men, or those who live under laws and governments.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115829, "lang": "en", "text": "The course of human institutions is to rise from necessity, to convenience, and thence to pleasure.", "author": "Giambattista Vico", "author_slug": "vico", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1744}
{"id": 115830, "lang": "en", "text": "The maximum truth is the maximum possibility.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115832, "lang": "en", "text": "The name of the game is to become increasingly yourself.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115834, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest activity a man can have is the contemplation of the divine.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115836, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not found in the external world, but in the depths of the soul.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115840, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not found in books, but in the heart.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115844, "lang": "en", "text": "The maximum is not the infinite but the maximum.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115845, "lang": "en", "text": "God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115847, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is a wandering exile in the world of opinions.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115849, "lang": "en", "text": "The way to truth lies in one direction: through a lover's incomprehensible experiences, which are given by God.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115850, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest act of reason is to recognize one's own limits.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115851, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not a thing that can be grasped, but a path that must be followed.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 115886, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115887, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115888, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern working class, the class of proletarians, is the necessary product of the application of machinery to industry.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115890, "lang": "en", "text": "The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115898, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a power imposed by the majority upon the minority alone. It is just as much the power of the minority to keep the majority in subjection.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115899, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat, the modern working class, is the class that suffers most from the bourgeoisie.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115900, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115901, "lang": "en", "text": "The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115902, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115903, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat will free all the productive forces from the fetters of private property.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 115916, "lang": "en", "text": "The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society, against the weight of the historical heritage and the external culture and technique of life.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115917, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one has it in one's power to further a cause that is good, the more one has it in one's power to further a cause that is bad.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115918, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of historical life is struggle.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115919, "lang": "en", "text": "The meaning of life is that it has no meaning.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115921, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual has become a mere cog in the enormous machinery of organic life.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115922, "lang": "en", "text": "The tragedy of modern culture is that it has turned products into producers.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115923, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of the beautiful is identity in variety.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115924, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the beautiful is independence, not being the means to any end.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115925, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the tragic is not death but the suffering of the individual.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115926, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the comic is the sudden revelation of the incongruity between a concept and the reality to which it is applied.", "author": "Georg Simmel", "author_slug": "georg-simmel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1918}
{"id": 115992, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of man is the history of his ideas.", "author": "Ernst Haeckel", "author_slug": "ernst-haeckel", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1919}
{"id": 115994, "lang": "en", "text": "The cell is a more recent acquisition than the atom.", "author": "Ernst Haeckel", "author_slug": "ernst-haeckel", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1919}
{"id": 115995, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of creation is the history of the development of consciousness.", "author": "Ernst Haeckel", "author_slug": "ernst-haeckel", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1919}
{"id": 115997, "lang": "en", "text": "The snake which cannot cast off its skin perishes. It is the same with the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116002, "lang": "en", "text": "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116004, "lang": "en", "text": "Belief means not wanting to know what is true.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116007, "lang": "en", "text": "I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116008, "lang": "en", "text": "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116010, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the privilege of the strongest and most evil to reduce others to a means of their ends.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116012, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must create time and place and, above all, circumstances wherein he is permitted to forget.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116013, "lang": "en", "text": "There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116014, "lang": "en", "text": "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else!", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 116019, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116020, "lang": "en", "text": "He must be very ignorant for he answers an argument with an oath.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116023, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who has not the spirit of this age, has misfortunes to suffer.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116024, "lang": "en", "text": "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116026, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to be obedient is to follow your own inclinations; there's no other way of being obedient.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116027, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116028, "lang": "en", "text": "He who has not the spirit of philosophy in him, whatever he may have of positive science, has but half an education.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116030, "lang": "en", "text": "The longer we dwell on a thought, the more power it attains to dominate our lives.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116031, "lang": "en", "text": "To enjoy life, we must have some pleasure or passion, some vice or some calling which will fill our cup full to the brim.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116032, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important thing in any relationship is not harmony, but understanding.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116035, "lang": "en", "text": "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116036, "lang": "en", "text": "The husband who considers his wife to be his property is usually a man no one else would have.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116037, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116039, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 116042, "lang": "en", "text": "A good conscience is a continual Christmas.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116044, "lang": "en", "text": "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116045, "lang": "en", "text": "He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116046, "lang": "en", "text": "Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116049, "lang": "en", "text": "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116052, "lang": "en", "text": "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116053, "lang": "en", "text": "There is the expert's knowledge and there is the knack of the expert.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116055, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116056, "lang": "en", "text": "The examination of one's conscience is an unpleasant but necessary task for the seeker after truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116057, "lang": "en", "text": "The first principle of all things is existence.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116059, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of the practical sciences is not truth, but only the good.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116064, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is always to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116066, "lang": "en", "text": "The excellence of the intellect is the excellence of the soul.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116067, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who knows the causes of things.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116068, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth does not contradict the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116069, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116070, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the truth in all things, and the truth about himself.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116071, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the light of the soul.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116072, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the limits of his own knowledge.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116073, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of knowledge is the knowledge of the causes of things.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116074, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the truth and acts accordingly.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 116075, "lang": "en", "text": "The knowledge of anything, since all knowledge is a conception of the mind, implies the conception of a mind to which it is known.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116076, "lang": "en", "text": "The safety of the people is a duty more obligatory than prayer.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116077, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician should not treat the disease but rather the patient who is suffering from it.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116078, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing that is not received into the soul somehow, whether truly or not truly.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116079, "lang": "en", "text": "The first thing which you have to do is to acquire the knowledge of the things which are the causes of sickness and health.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116080, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of the thing is confirmed by the investigation, not by the preconceived notion.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116081, "lang": "en", "text": "The honorable and upright poet is the friend of the free.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116082, "lang": "en", "text": "The knowledge of the things that are, is the highest aim of the philosopher; and next to this is the knowledge of why and how they are.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116083, "lang": "en", "text": "The physician should look upon the patient as a friend and equal.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116087, "lang": "en", "text": "The intention of the philosopher is to make plain to others the wickedness or the goodness of any man.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116088, "lang": "en", "text": "The knowledge of the things that exist is the knowledge of the Divine.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116089, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of the physician should be to teach and not to prescribe.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 116094, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all curses is to be ignorant of one's ignorance.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116096, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is the seat of wisdom and the source of all knowledge.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116098, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all blessings is to be content with what you have.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116103, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker must be a man of penetration, not a man of mere learning.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116104, "lang": "en", "text": "The path to God is hard, and those who walk it are few.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116106, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is the king of the body, and the senses are its soldiers.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116109, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a bridge, pass over it, but do not build your dwelling upon it.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116113, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a dream, and the awakening is death.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116117, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a test, and the believer is the one who passes it.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116121, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a mirage, and the believer is the one who sees through it.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 116125, "lang": "en", "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116126, "lang": "en", "text": "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116127, "lang": "en", "text": "You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116128, "lang": "en", "text": "Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop away.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116129, "lang": "en", "text": "What you seek is seeking you.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116132, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116134, "lang": "en", "text": "Be empty of worrying.  Think of who created the night and the day.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116135, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116136, "lang": "en", "text": "Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116137, "lang": "en", "text": "Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116138, "lang": "en", "text": "I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116139, "lang": "en", "text": "In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116141, "lang": "en", "text": "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116142, "lang": "en", "text": "Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116143, "lang": "en", "text": "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116144, "lang": "en", "text": "Respond to every call that excites your spirit.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116145, "lang": "en", "text": "The wound is the place where the Light enters you.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116146, "lang": "en", "text": "This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116147, "lang": "en", "text": "What you hide with me, I help you throw away.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 116149, "lang": "en", "text": "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116150, "lang": "en", "text": "The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116151, "lang": "en", "text": "Into this Universe, and Why not knowing, Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116152, "lang": "en", "text": "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illuminated Lantern Which is the Moon.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116153, "lang": "en", "text": "Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116154, "lang": "en", "text": "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116155, "lang": "en", "text": "Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116157, "lang": "en", "text": "The Moving Finger writes the Decree of Fate And moves but on: and since the Predestined Hour Fixed in the Writ that is the Ultimate of Power— What should it profit Thee to strive at more?", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116158, "lang": "en", "text": "The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116159, "lang": "en", "text": "Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116162, "lang": "en", "text": "The Worst of all Things growing in the Soul Are the Waste Products of our several Vices.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116163, "lang": "en", "text": "And latest, near the Goal of Life, to find The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life rustle, whisper, fall: and then The Wind of Death shall sweep them all away.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116164, "lang": "en", "text": "Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to Rest.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116167, "lang": "en", "text": "With Earth's fresh Clay they moulded Us, and the Breath of God Is Life in Us.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116168, "lang": "en", "text": "But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116169, "lang": "en", "text": "The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that tosses Thee to Heaven or Hell, Will toss thee to thy Beds as soon as tell.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116170, "lang": "en", "text": "And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press, End in the Nothing all Things end in—yes— What then?—fade with the Rest! and you shall be Forgot, as you forget your Friend.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116171, "lang": "en", "text": "The Flower you so much long to have, A-holding in your hand, behold, Applies To your own Hand too, that not long it stays.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 116172, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to understand the world and our place in it.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116175, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life is that which is lived in accordance with wisdom and virtue.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116178, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is an ordered and harmonious whole.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116182, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a lover of beauty and a seeker of the true.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116186, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a lover of knowledge and a seeker of understanding.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116188, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a lover of virtue and a seeker of the good life.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116191, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to attain knowledge of the ultimate principle.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 116192, "lang": "en", "text": "Civilizations rise, flourish and die, and are succeeded by others.", "author": "Ibn Khaldun", "author_slug": "ibn-khaldun", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1406}
{"id": 116193, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a vast arena where people of all nations and races are engaged in a constant struggle for power and supremacy.", "author": "Ibn Khaldun", "author_slug": "ibn-khaldun", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1406}
{"id": 116195, "lang": "en", "text": "The second generation is inferior to the first, and the third is inferior to the second.", "author": "Ibn Khaldun", "author_slug": "ibn-khaldun", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1406}
{"id": 116197, "lang": "en", "text": "Civilizations do not die from invasions by barbarians; they die from within when they lose their values.", "author": "Ibn Khaldun", "author_slug": "ibn-khaldun", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1406}
{"id": 116198, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a vast and intricate web of cause and effect.", "author": "Ibn Khaldun", "author_slug": "ibn-khaldun", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1406}
{"id": 116201, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116202, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116203, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116204, "lang": "en", "text": "Silence is a source of great strength.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116205, "lang": "en", "text": "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116207, "lang": "en", "text": "The softest thing in the universe overcomes the hardest thing in the universe.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116208, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116209, "lang": "en", "text": "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116210, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116211, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116212, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116213, "lang": "en", "text": "He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116214, "lang": "en", "text": "The further one goes, the less one knows.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116215, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is contented is rich.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116216, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not hoard. The more he helps others to succeed, the more he too will succeed.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116218, "lang": "en", "text": "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116219, "lang": "en", "text": "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 116226, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not lay up his own opinions about anything, nor does he anoint himself with his own praises.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116228, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the sky at dawn, which is clear on all sides.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116229, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the wind, which blows on all things without partiality.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116230, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the moon, which waxes and wanes but never changes its nature.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116231, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the water, which benefits all things and contends with none.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116232, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the valley, which receives all things and is never full.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116233, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the uncarved block, which can be made into anything.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116238, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the great happiness, which is hidden in all things and is not seen.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116246, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like a mirror, he does not lean forward or backward in his response to things.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116247, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like an infant, his mind is not yet confused with the distinctions of good and bad.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116252, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the moon, he does not strive to be full or new, but simply follows his course.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116253, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the wind, he does not strive to be strong or weak, but simply follows his course.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 116283, "lang": "en", "text": "A sage is not one who is never angry, but one who is never angry at the wrong time.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116284, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of learning is like the blazing up of a fire; if we have kindling enough, we shall have a conflagration.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116285, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart of the sage is like the mirror of the sun and the moon, which responds to all things but does not hurry after them.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116286, "lang": "en", "text": "The people are the most important element in a country; the gods of the land and the ancestors come next; the ruler is the lightest.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116288, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of the superior man is to seek for what is right; the way of the inferior man is to seek for what is profitable.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116290, "lang": "en", "text": "The great man bends his mind to the task of ruling; the inferior man bends his mind to the task of making a living.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116292, "lang": "en", "text": "The great man is not one who does not fall, but one who rises again.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116293, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of learning is none other than to seek for the lost mind.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116294, "lang": "en", "text": "A man may change his words, but he cannot change his nature.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116295, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart of the sage is like the mirror of the sun and the moon, reflecting all things without choosing.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116297, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of humanity is to regard profit as of secondary importance.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116298, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart of compassion is the heart of the sage.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116299, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of man is like water. If you let it flow, it will always find its level.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 116302, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is born with a nature that is common to all. It is what he does that separates one from another.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 116304, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like a mirror, reflecting all things but not holding on to them.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 116305, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman uses his ears and eyes as filters; he harmonizes with righteousness and makes his actions accord with what is proper.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 116306, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not a vessel that holds only one thing.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 116326, "lang": "en", "text": "All conditioned things are unsatisfactory.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116328, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of things is emptiness.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116331, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not assert what they do not know.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116332, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is beyond all words and concepts.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116334, "lang": "en", "text": "The three marks of existence are impermanence, suffering, and non-self.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116336, "lang": "en", "text": "The eightfold path leads to the cessation of suffering.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116337, "lang": "en", "text": "The twelve links of dependent origination explain the cycle of rebirth.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116338, "lang": "en", "text": "The three poisons of ignorance, attachment, and aversion cause suffering.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116339, "lang": "en", "text": "The antidote to the three poisons is wisdom, compassion, and ethical conduct.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116340, "lang": "en", "text": "The three trainings of ethics, concentration, and wisdom lead to enlightenment.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116342, "lang": "en", "text": "The twelve sense bases are the doorways to the cycle of rebirth.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116343, "lang": "en", "text": "The four foundations of mindfulness are the path to liberation.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116344, "lang": "en", "text": "The four right efforts are the means to overcome the three poisons.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116345, "lang": "en", "text": "The four divine abidings of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the path to peace.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116346, "lang": "en", "text": "The four nutriments of edible food, contact, mental volition, and consciousness sustain the cycle of rebirth.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116347, "lang": "en", "text": "The four noble truths are the heart of the Buddha's teaching.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 116350, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never elated or depressed. He is free from anxiety and fear.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116352, "lang": "en", "text": "Know thyself to control thyself.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116354, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is one, though the wise call it by many names.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116356, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is free, the self is ever free.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116357, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never disturbed. His peace is unassailable.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116365, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never affected by the world.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116368, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is the only reality, all else is a mirage in the desert of ignorance.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116370, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is the only truth, all else is a passing show.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116372, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is the only reality, all else is a fleeting shadow.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 116389, "lang": "en", "text": "All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116392, "lang": "en", "text": "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116394, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116395, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116396, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of misery and ignorance. It is we who have to go out into the world and preach the gospel of fearlessness and strength.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116397, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we grow in knowledge, the more we find our ignorance.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116399, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we grow in love and virtue and purity, the more we see love and virtue and purity outside.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116400, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of suffering.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116402, "lang": "en", "text": "The fire that warms the earth is the same fire that burns it.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 116404, "lang": "en", "text": "Love is an endless mystery, for it will never be fathomed by the mind.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116406, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with existence.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116407, "lang": "en", "text": "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116409, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116410, "lang": "en", "text": "We gain freedom when we have put behind us not the discipline and control of the law, but the discipline and control of necessity.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116413, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not respectful of beauty. It forgets. But the earth heeds and remembers.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116414, "lang": "en", "text": "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116415, "lang": "en", "text": "The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116418, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth which was difficult for others is easy for love.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116419, "lang": "en", "text": "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116420, "lang": "en", "text": "We gain freedom when we have put out essence into an act of creation, and then are able to let it go.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116421, "lang": "en", "text": "Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116424, "lang": "en", "text": "Every difficulty slurps away a portion of our self-love.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 116484, "lang": "en", "text": "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116485, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116488, "lang": "en", "text": "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116489, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by letting men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116490, "lang": "en", "text": "Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by the love they have for what belongs to them or by the hate they have for what belongs to others.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116491, "lang": "en", "text": "The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116492, "lang": "en", "text": "He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116493, "lang": "en", "text": "The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116494, "lang": "en", "text": "A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116495, "lang": "en", "text": "Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116496, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116497, "lang": "en", "text": "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116498, "lang": "en", "text": "The more sand has been heaped against a tower, the weaker is the foundation upon which it stands.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116499, "lang": "en", "text": "A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116500, "lang": "en", "text": "Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116501, "lang": "en", "text": "The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116502, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not promise anything that will not be fulfilled.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116504, "lang": "en", "text": "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116505, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116506, "lang": "en", "text": "Men are driven by two principal desires, either to do good to someone from whom they expect good, or to do harm to someone from whom they expect harm.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116507, "lang": "en", "text": "The fact is, that a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116508, "lang": "en", "text": "A man who is used to acting alone and under his own impulse cannot become a good soldier.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116509, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man stands where he can manage his affairs with least danger, not where he loses control over them by his rashness.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116511, "lang": "en", "text": "A wise prince ought to establish such a reputation with other potentates and powers, that no one ever thinks of attacking him.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116512, "lang": "en", "text": "A wise prince ought to observe some such rules, and never in peaceful times stand idle, but increase his resources with industry, so that they may be sufficient in adversity.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "author_slug": "niccolo-machiavelli", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1527}
{"id": 116514, "lang": "en", "text": "By doing nothing we learn to do ill.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116515, "lang": "en", "text": "The desire to write grows with writing.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116516, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116517, "lang": "en", "text": "When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116518, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you forgive.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116519, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of all philosophy is wonder.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116520, "lang": "en", "text": "The most fortunate are those who have a good bringer-up.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116522, "lang": "en", "text": "Silence is the virtue of fools.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116523, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116524, "lang": "en", "text": "The most dangerous kind of prejudice is that which makes us turn a blind eye to our own shortcomings while being hypercritical of others.", "author": "Erasmus of Rotterdam", "author_slug": "erasmus", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1536}
{"id": 116548, "lang": "en", "text": "The dignity of man consists in this, that he is the only being in the world that knows himself.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116553, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you know how much there is to know.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116558, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is the workshop of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116561, "lang": "en", "text": "The conscience is the judge of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116562, "lang": "en", "text": "The prudence is the counselor of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116563, "lang": "en", "text": "The temperance is the moderator of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116564, "lang": "en", "text": "The fortitude is the defender of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116565, "lang": "en", "text": "The justice is the distributor of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116566, "lang": "en", "text": "The faith is the illuminator of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116568, "lang": "en", "text": "The charity is the perfecter of the soul.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116570, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding is the eye of the mind.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 116577, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116578, "lang": "en", "text": "If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116579, "lang": "en", "text": "No man is more unhappy than he who cannot cast off his past.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116580, "lang": "en", "text": "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116582, "lang": "en", "text": "We should every night call to mind how we have acted that day, and how we have spent it; what vices we have overcome, what we have been overcome by; in what respects we have been lazy, in what indulgent.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116584, "lang": "en", "text": "No man has had a happy life that he thoroughly repented of.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116585, "lang": "en", "text": "Associate with people who are likely to improve your own character and not harm it.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116590, "lang": "en", "text": "We should every night call to mind what we have done wrong, what we have done right, and what we ought to do better.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 116594, "lang": "en", "text": "The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 116595, "lang": "en", "text": "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 116596, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 116597, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 116599, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want something good, get it yourself.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116600, "lang": "en", "text": "It is impossible that happiness and yearning for what is not should ever come together.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116601, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't behave as if you are destined to live forever.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116602, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116603, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116605, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the nature of the wise to resist passion, of the fool to be a slave to it.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116606, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles, and all goodness will be added to you readily.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116607, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready to meet and overcome what is difficult and even painful.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116608, "lang": "en", "text": "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116609, "lang": "en", "text": "If you wish to be a writer, write.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116610, "lang": "en", "text": "You are a soul carrying a corpse.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 116667, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing can be created out of nothing.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116668, "lang": "en", "text": "The fear of death is worse than death itself.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116669, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is infinite and eternal.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116670, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms are infinite in number and in types.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116671, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is mortal and dies with the body.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116672, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods do not interfere with the affairs of men.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116673, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by chance and necessity.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116674, "lang": "en", "text": "The senses are the only true source of knowledge.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116675, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not created for the sake of man.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116677, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms move in a void and collide to form the world.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116678, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a material substance and is subject to decay.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116679, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not created by a divine intelligence.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116682, "lang": "en", "text": "The fear of death is the source of all superstition.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116683, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms are eternal and indestructible.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116684, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not created for any purpose.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116687, "lang": "en", "text": "The fear of the gods is the source of all suffering.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116688, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms are the only real substance in the universe.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116690, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms are the only real cause of all motion.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116691, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not governed by a divine intelligence.", "author": "Lucretius", "author_slug": "lucretius", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -55}
{"id": 116693, "lang": "en", "text": "Esse est percipi.", "author": "George Berkeley", "author_slug": "george-berkeley", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1753}
{"id": 116694, "lang": "en", "text": "The objects of sense are nothing but combinations of those simple ideas which we receive from our senses.", "author": "George Berkeley", "author_slug": "george-berkeley", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1753}
{"id": 116695, "lang": "en", "text": "All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind.", "author": "George Berkeley", "author_slug": "george-berkeley", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1753}
{"id": 116697, "lang": "en", "text": "The ideas imprinted on the sense are real things, and do really exist without the mind.", "author": "George Berkeley", "author_slug": "george-berkeley", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1753}
{"id": 116698, "lang": "en", "text": "The objects of sense exist only in the mind.", "author": "George Berkeley", "author_slug": "george-berkeley", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1753}
{"id": 116699, "lang": "en", "text": "Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116701, "lang": "en", "text": "Curiosity is the lust of the mind.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116702, "lang": "en", "text": "I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116703, "lang": "en", "text": "Hell is truth seen too late.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116705, "lang": "en", "text": "The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which it is given.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116706, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's conscience is but the oraculum of God for that particular person.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116708, "lang": "en", "text": "The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116709, "lang": "en", "text": "The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himselfe, for the preservation of his own nature.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116710, "lang": "en", "text": "The value, or worth, of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116711, "lang": "en", "text": "The first foundation of any common-wealth, is the placing of the sovereign authority in some certain person, or persons.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116712, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign power is the soul of the commonwealth; which, unles it be very united and firmly compacted, can neither stand nor go.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116713, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of all government is the peace of the people.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116714, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to avoid civil war is to give absolute power to one man.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116715, "lang": "en", "text": "The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their own industry to obtain them.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116716, "lang": "en", "text": "The passions that incline men to war are principally, fear, glory, and avarice.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116717, "lang": "en", "text": "The first cause of quarrel is competition; the second, diffidence; the third, glory.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116718, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of man, in the state of nature, is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116719, "lang": "en", "text": "Justice is the constant will of giving every one his due.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116720, "lang": "en", "text": "The most noble and profitable invention of all other was that of Printed Books.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116722, "lang": "en", "text": "The first duty of the sovereign is the protection of the people.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116723, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign is the public person, the representative of the people.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116724, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must be absolute, or there will be no peace.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116725, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to make laws, to punish offenders, and to wage war.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116726, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to levy taxes and to raise an army.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116727, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to make treaties and alliances with other nations.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116729, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to appoint judges and to interpret the laws.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116730, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to pardon offenders and to grant immunity.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116731, "lang": "en", "text": "The sovereign must have the power to control the education of the people.", "author": "Thomas Hobbes", "author_slug": "thomas-hobbes", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1679}
{"id": 116732, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116733, "lang": "en", "text": "Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116741, "lang": "en", "text": "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116743, "lang": "en", "text": "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116744, "lang": "en", "text": "The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116746, "lang": "en", "text": "The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116748, "lang": "en", "text": "The theory of the moral sentiments is of all others the science which I profess to have studied with the most application, and in which I believe myself to have made some progress.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116750, "lang": "en", "text": "The real and effectual discipline which is continually exercised in the army is that which is maintained by the fear of the officer, the honor and shame felt by the soldier.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116752, "lang": "en", "text": "The division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116755, "lang": "en", "text": "The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116756, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116757, "lang": "en", "text": "The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116758, "lang": "en", "text": "The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from the professions of his patriotism.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116759, "lang": "en", "text": "The price of every thing rises or falls upon the least appearance of a real or imaginary scarcity or plenty.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116761, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who pities his own misfortunes, is apt to be insulting and oppressive to those who are really in a worse situation.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116762, "lang": "en", "text": "The affections, however, of the spectator, are never so properly called into exercise, as when the state of the person, whom he is led to sympathize with, is that of doubt and uncertainty.", "author": "Adam Smith", "author_slug": "smith", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 116765, "lang": "en", "text": "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116767, "lang": "en", "text": "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116768, "lang": "en", "text": "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116770, "lang": "en", "text": "He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116772, "lang": "en", "text": "The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116773, "lang": "en", "text": "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116774, "lang": "en", "text": "The people are a sea devoid of government. This sea, without current and without banks, would be both useless and terrible.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 116775, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is the production of greater folly.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 116776, "lang": "en", "text": "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 116778, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all republican government is the happiness of the governed.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 116779, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate criterion by which to judge of the actions of all public men is, to what degree they tend to make the world and mankind happier and better.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 116780, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate result of all revolutionary change is to find out that we really knew all the time what we held in our hands.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 116782, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not block the way of inquiry.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116783, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116784, "lang": "en", "text": "Belief is a habit of mind in the wider sense of that word, embracing our whole system of what we take for granted in the way of habits that color our views.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116785, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116786, "lang": "en", "text": "Logic is rooted in the social principle.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116787, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is an animal that thinks as he is doomed to live, individually or in society.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116788, "lang": "en", "text": "The real is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116789, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific spirit requires a coolness of judgment which is only got by putting a small matter at stake.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116790, "lang": "en", "text": "The first rule of logic is, that we ought to take things in the first degree only.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116792, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific man must be prepared to invert his judgment, with all the promptness and all the good humor of a man of the world.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116793, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of thought is to make our ideas clear.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 116794, "lang": "en", "text": "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116795, "lang": "en", "text": "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116796, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116797, "lang": "en", "text": "Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116798, "lang": "en", "text": "The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116799, "lang": "en", "text": "The school has always been the most important means of transmitting the cultural heritage of society.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116800, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher is the agent through whom the facts and truths of the physical and social world are communicated to the developing mind.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116802, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is primarily a social institution. Education, therefore, must be a social process.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116804, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is a community life in itself.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116805, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher's place is not so much to talk as to get pupils to talk to one another and to talk to him.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116807, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the fundamental institution of the democratic society.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116809, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the laboratory in which the democratic way of life is tested and perfected.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116810, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher's business is to create the conditions under which learning can take place.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116811, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the place where the young learn the ways of the community and where they are prepared for their future roles in society.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116812, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher's task is to help the pupil to become an active, responsible member of the community.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116813, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the institution through which society deliberately transmits its cultural heritage from one generation to the next.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116814, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher's role is to facilitate the learning process, not to dominate it.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116815, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the place where the young learn to think, to reason, and to make judgments.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116816, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher's task is to help the pupil to become an independent, self-directed learner.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116817, "lang": "en", "text": "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116818, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of the birth of consciousness is that those things in the stream of experience which prove most worthy, most worth while, are selected, are marked, are emphasized.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116819, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not given to us, but rather put to us while we are in the making.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116820, "lang": "en", "text": "The self, as immediate experience, cannot be divorced from the world in which it arises.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116822, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is fundamentally an institution arranged to enable children to continue to do in a richer and more organized way what they do in playing with each other outside the school.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116824, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116825, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the last place where the democratic ideal can be realized.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116826, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is the laboratory in which the democratic ideal is put to the test.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 116862, "lang": "en", "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116863, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116864, "lang": "en", "text": "A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116865, "lang": "en", "text": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116868, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116869, "lang": "en", "text": "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116870, "lang": "en", "text": "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116871, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116875, "lang": "en", "text": "The lack of money is the root of all evil.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116876, "lang": "en", "text": "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116877, "lang": "en", "text": "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116878, "lang": "en", "text": "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116879, "lang": "en", "text": "The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116880, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because we have had to exaggerate too much to make the public believe it.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116882, "lang": "en", "text": "Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116883, "lang": "en", "text": "The more I learn about men, the more I like dogs.", "author": "Mark Twain", "author_slug": "marktwain", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 116945, "lang": "en", "text": "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: 'What are you going through?'", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116946, "lang": "en", "text": "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116947, "lang": "en", "text": "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116948, "lang": "en", "text": "The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116949, "lang": "en", "text": "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116950, "lang": "en", "text": "The love of God is a fire that burns and consumes everything that is not itself.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116952, "lang": "en", "text": "Imagination and fiction make it possible to uncover in the human soul everything which, if it remains hidden, prevents it from being satisfied.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116953, "lang": "en", "text": "There are two things which men can do equally well: they can succeed in doing good or they can succeed in making believe that they have done good.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116955, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to escape from a self-centered life is to be willing to give until it hurts.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 116978, "lang": "en", "text": "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and take it. One must have the courage to dare.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 116980, "lang": "en", "text": "The formula of human happiness: freedom plus appetite plus running water.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 116982, "lang": "en", "text": "The world will be saved by beauty.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 116984, "lang": "en", "text": "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't like to count his blessings.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 116985, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing more seductive for man than his own freedom of conscience, but also nothing more painful.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 116986, "lang": "en", "text": "The formula of true peace offered by the world is a formula for the annihilation of the human race.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 117022, "lang": "en", "text": "Where are the borders that mark the limits of the possible?", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117024, "lang": "en", "text": "But man is a dream, a work of the gods.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117025, "lang": "en", "text": "Poetry is the most naive and most refined form of expression of the human mind.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117026, "lang": "en", "text": "There is a time when the soul is like the eye surrounded by darkness.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117027, "lang": "en", "text": "What has remained to our time of Hellenic and Hellenistic antiquity? The gods have fled, and all the temples are empty.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117028, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest is like the lowest, and the lowest like the highest.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117030, "lang": "en", "text": "Full of merit, yet poetically, man dwells on this earth.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117032, "lang": "en", "text": "What has always made man great is that he is a bridge and not an end.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117033, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods have given man a measure of madness, and this is the very thing that makes him the most wise and the most divine of all creatures.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117034, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is like the god of old, who in his love for man, gave him the vine and taught him how to make wine.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117035, "lang": "en", "text": "The more I think about it, the more I realize that the only way to live is to accept that we are all mad, and that this madness is the very thing that makes us human.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117036, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty in the most ideal form.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 117099, "lang": "en", "text": "Despair is the sickness unto death.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117102, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one has it in one's power to seduce, the more one has renounced.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117104, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117106, "lang": "en", "text": "The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, the idea for which I can live and die.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117108, "lang": "en", "text": "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117110, "lang": "en", "text": "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117111, "lang": "en", "text": "All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117115, "lang": "en", "text": "The world itself is a masterpiece of alleviation of existence through pain.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117117, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117120, "lang": "en", "text": "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117124, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must be able to look into the abyss without losing his head.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117126, "lang": "en", "text": "The most common lie is that at the bottom of the heart one finds only goodness and nobility. Alas, my brothers, man is evil!", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117127, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must be able to love and hate at the same time.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117128, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual has always to give new decisions, and to begin with himself over and over for all eternity.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117130, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must be able to find meaning in the chaos.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117131, "lang": "en", "text": "The most fundamental of all human rights is the right to disagree.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117132, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of knowledge must be able to embrace uncertainty.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117133, "lang": "en", "text": "The snake which cannot cast its skin has no way of growing; it has to remain small and short its whole life. So must you cast off your old beliefs and opinions and renew, change, and grow constantly.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117136, "lang": "en", "text": "A man is a bungler and easily finds himself in an absurd position.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "author_slug": "friedrichnietzsche", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 117138, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117139, "lang": "en", "text": "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not find perfect companionship with himself, he will seek for it in vain from any other.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117140, "lang": "en", "text": "The great masses of men are satisfied with being instructed by tradition, because this is the path of least resistance, and they are too idle and comfortable to inquire into anything for themselves.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117142, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst of all follies is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117144, "lang": "en", "text": "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117145, "lang": "en", "text": "The ethical and religious doctrines which prevail in a given age are a product of the thoughts predominant in that age.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117146, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who knows nothing, loses nothing in dying; but he certainly ceases to gain anything more.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117147, "lang": "en", "text": "The first and most necessary of all virtues is justice.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117150, "lang": "en", "text": "The only possession we can carry with us into the next world is our character.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117152, "lang": "en", "text": "The most perfect happiness of the rational, virtuous, and happy man is to enjoy the present without any of the anxiety and fear that are inseparable from uncertainty about the future.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117158, "lang": "en", "text": "No one can be thoroughly brutal unless there is something gentle in his nature in the first place.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117160, "lang": "en", "text": "Suffering is the sole origin of knowledge.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117161, "lang": "en", "text": "The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible is that which takes a little longer.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117162, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117163, "lang": "en", "text": "The two basic forms of pride are arrogance and vanity.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117164, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no doubt that life is given us, not taken by us. Almost everything else we have to obtain by our own efforts.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117165, "lang": "en", "text": "To be happy is to be able to become absorbed completely in some single pursuit.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117167, "lang": "en", "text": "To live alone is the fate of all great souls.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117169, "lang": "en", "text": "We can respect only that which is strong; and man, as the weakest of all animals, respects only man.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117170, "lang": "en", "text": "We should read only those books that bite and sting us.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117171, "lang": "en", "text": "A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117172, "lang": "en", "text": "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117174, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a topsy-turvy place; and so am I, a topsy-turvy man, in it.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117175, "lang": "en", "text": "The ethical and religious worth of an action does not depend on its being done with a view to some end, but simply on its being done.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117177, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of all morality is to be found in the timeless and unchangeable dictates of the conscience.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117180, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he understands that he knows nothing at all.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117181, "lang": "en", "text": "The last resort of those who have nothing left that is truly their own is criticism.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117182, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117183, "lang": "en", "text": "The two basic forms of human stupidity are ignorance and apathy.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "author_slug": "arthur-schopenhauer", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1860}
{"id": 117185, "lang": "en", "text": "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117187, "lang": "en", "text": "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is no other source.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117189, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117190, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117191, "lang": "en", "text": "I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117192, "lang": "en", "text": "The only object of the practical reason is, then, to produce a will which is good not empirically, not as a means to arbitrary ends, but as good in itself.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117194, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no possibility of thinking of anything in the world, or even out of it, which can be regarded as good without qualification, except a good will.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117196, "lang": "en", "text": "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117199, "lang": "en", "text": "What is freedom but the right to do that which others have forbidden?", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117202, "lang": "en", "text": "Without freedom, enlightenment is impossible.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117204, "lang": "en", "text": "From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117206, "lang": "en", "text": "The busier we are, the more important it is to us to have at least a short retreat where we can be alone.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117208, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who lets himself be ruled by a beastly desire is worse than a beast.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117209, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of a man who knows no value but that of pleasure is as worthless as the life of a beast.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117211, "lang": "en", "text": "The only radical evil is the evil committed by man.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117212, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that is really valuable is that which is not a means to any further end.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117218, "lang": "en", "text": "All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117220, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of a man who is wholly occupied in the study of matters which, should he not study them, he would not ignore, but know less accurately, is vain and worthless.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117222, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117223, "lang": "en", "text": "The death of dogma is the birth of morality.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117224, "lang": "en", "text": "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117225, "lang": "en", "text": "The wide ocean of knowledge has no shore.", "author": "Immanuel Kant", "author_slug": "immanuelkant", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1804}
{"id": 117228, "lang": "en", "text": "We are what we make of ourselves.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117229, "lang": "en", "text": "The true is the whole. The whole, however, is merely the essence consuming itself and moving into its own opposition.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117231, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of the state is that of the world spirit.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117232, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the divine idea as it exists on earth.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117237, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the rational in its highest right.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117239, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the realization of the ethical substance.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117241, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the realization of freedom and justice.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117243, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the realization of the universal and necessary will.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117244, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the actuality of the rational will.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117246, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the actuality of freedom.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117247, "lang": "en", "text": "Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself, in that, and by the fact that it exists for itself.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117248, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the march of God on Earth, the final aim of the world; it is the objective of the world.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117249, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea is the beginning of all things, and the end of all things.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117250, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of the mind is not one that stays at home with itself, but it ventures out and loses itself in the object.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117251, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is not an abstraction; it is the concrete, the fullness of being.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117252, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not to be found in the depths of the individual, but in the universal.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117253, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all being, the source of all reality.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117254, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea is the truth of nature.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117255, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual is the universal in its particularity.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117256, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the unity of all opposites.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117257, "lang": "en", "text": "The idea is the truth of history.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117258, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual is the universal in its singularity.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117259, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all knowledge.", "author": "G.W.F. Hegel", "author_slug": "hegel", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1831}
{"id": 117284, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can only happen when one is in the process of becoming oneself.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117285, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one forgets himself - the more patiently he is able to sit in a theater and watch a play - the greater he is, the more he is capable of forgetting himself.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117287, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a substance, not a thing; it is that which relates itself to its own self.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117288, "lang": "en", "text": "To be a teacher does not mean to always occupy the posture of one who lectures, but of one who leads the young to the light, with the eager desire for the light.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117289, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one forgets himself - the more patiently and sincerely he is able to take part in what is going on around him, the greater will be his power to influence.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117291, "lang": "en", "text": "To have faith is to lose one's mind and win it again.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117293, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows a person, the more one comes to realize that the idea one has of him is false.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117294, "lang": "en", "text": "Boredom is the root of all evil. It is a demon that devours all the good in the world.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117295, "lang": "en", "text": "The thing is, to understand myself, I must understand the power that placed me here.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117296, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of human intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117298, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of money is only to facilitate the exchange of goods; its end is to disappear in the act.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117300, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is a relation that relates itself to its own self and in relating itself to its own self relates itself to another.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117305, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not the task of the minister to comfort the congregation, but to make them uncomfortable.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117306, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as to get to know how enormously much he is capable of doing.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "author_slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1855}
{"id": 117347, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who has not the same ideas as the majority of his fellow-citizens has no resource but war.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117350, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117352, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is irritated by trifles cannot think great thoughts.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117353, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117354, "lang": "en", "text": "The present is the only thing in which we are sure to be.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117359, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who has not the spirit of this age has some other spirit.", "author": "Voltaire", "author_slug": "voltaire", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117363, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117365, "lang": "en", "text": "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117366, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117368, "lang": "en", "text": "The great art of living is seeing the goal standing in the midst of the path.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117369, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to overcome is to gamble. To calculate is to lose.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117370, "lang": "en", "text": "The human heart feels the thrill of the Creator as it responds to the call of beauty.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117372, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a dangerous school for those who seek to be scholars in its vanities.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117373, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not he who gives the right answers, but he who poses the right questions.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117375, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the impression one makes on others.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117391, "lang": "en", "text": "The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117393, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest achievement is selflessness.", "author": "Albert Pike", "author_slug": "albertpike", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117398, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest virtue is to live, and if possible, to live well.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117399, "lang": "en", "text": "Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; nor do we enjoy it because we restrain our lusts; on the contrary, because we enjoy it, we are able to restrain them.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117400, "lang": "en", "text": "The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117401, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the struggle and live more.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117402, "lang": "en", "text": "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117403, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we unite into one body, the more we make ourselves into a state.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117404, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we perfect our intellect, the more we understand or perceive that we are eternal.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117406, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know objects of a certain kind, the more we feel love or hate towards them.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117408, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we multiply our knowledge of things, the more we multiply our enjoyment of them.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117409, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand ourselves and our emotions, the better we can understand others.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117412, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand the causes of things, the more we are able to produce effects.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117415, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand the nature of things, the more we are able to control them.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117418, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest virtue is to live, and the greatest felicity is to live in rational happiness.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117420, "lang": "en", "text": "The more perfect a thing is, the more it acts, and the less it suffers.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117421, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest possible state of human perfection is to understand that we are part of nature and not separate from it.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117427, "lang": "en", "text": "The more clearly you understand yourself, the better you can love yourself.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117431, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know yourself, the more you will see that you are the cause of all your own good and evil.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117432, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you understand the nature of things, the more you will see that everything is necessary.", "author": "Baruch Spinoza", "author_slug": "baruchspinoza", "school": "rationalistPantheism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1677}
{"id": 117433, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no Religion higher than Truth.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117434, "lang": "en", "text": "The voice of the silence is heard only by the pure in heart.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117435, "lang": "en", "text": "The esoteric school teaches that the universe is worked and guided from within.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117436, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great chorus of illusion.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117442, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is divided into men who have talent and men who have character.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117445, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one studies nature, the more one realizes that what is called nature and the creations of nature are something so comprehensive as to be beyond the grasp of the mind of man.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117446, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great chakra, or wheel, in which every man, every being, every plant, every mineral, every atom, is a spoke; and the hub of that wheel is the Eternal, the One, the All.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117447, "lang": "en", "text": "The only real freedom is self-realization, and that comes only through the development of the soul.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117448, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we cultivate the power of observation, the more we shall see that the world is full of miracles.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117449, "lang": "en", "text": "The only real progress is that which is achieved through the development of the soul.", "author": "Helena Blavatsky", "author_slug": "helena-blavatsky", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 117452, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is that the world is a dream and we are the imagination of some one else.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117454, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires that we suspend our egos and enter another's world.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117456, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand the spiritual world, the more we understand the physical world.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117457, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest gift we can give to another is to see them as they truly are.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117458, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be experienced.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117460, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great work of art, and we are the artists.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117466, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we listen, the more we understand.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117469, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great mirror, and we are the reflections.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117476, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is that the spiritual world is not far away, but very near.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117477, "lang": "en", "text": "The only truly free individuals are those who are able to think for themselves.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117478, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of knowledge is wisdom, and the highest form of wisdom is love.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117480, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to spiritual progress is the illusion of separateness.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117482, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of art is the art of living.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117483, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we understand the interconnectedness of all things, the more we understand the nature of reality.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117484, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a place to be conquered, but a place to be understood.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117486, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of education is to help the individual to become a free, independent, and responsible member of society.", "author": "Rudolf Steiner", "author_slug": "rudolf-steiner", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1925}
{"id": 117566, "lang": "en", "text": "The angels are not aware that they are in heaven, but they believe themselves to be in the world.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117568, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of man is his love, and the character of his love is his life.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117569, "lang": "en", "text": "He who knows himself, knows all men.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117572, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a theater for the spiritual world.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117574, "lang": "en", "text": "The love of the world is the love of one's own life.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117575, "lang": "en", "text": "The true idea of the church is that it is a spiritual body, a communion of souls, and a society of angels.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117576, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is born into eternity, and so is continually tending and aspiring towards what is eternal.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117578, "lang": "en", "text": "He who wishes to be spiritually minded should meditate on the end of life, and should not only think of death, but of judgment and eternal life.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117580, "lang": "en", "text": "The spiritual world is not far from us, but very near; and if we were in a perfect state, we should see it.", "author": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "author_slug": "emanuel-swedenborg", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1772}
{"id": 117581, "lang": "en", "text": "In the beginning, there was nothing, and this nothing was God.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117582, "lang": "en", "text": "God is a fire that always consumes itself and is always reborn from itself.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117583, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a mirror of the divine nature.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117584, "lang": "en", "text": "All things are in God, and God is in all things.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117585, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a spark of the divine fire.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117586, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he knows that he knows nothing.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117587, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great book, and those who do not travel read only one page.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117589, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man has, the more he desires.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117590, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great theater, and we are all actors in it.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117591, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he loves.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117592, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great mystery, and we are all part of it.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117593, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man suffers, the more he understands.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117594, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great school, and we are all students in it.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117597, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man understands, the more he loves.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117598, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great symphony, and we are all instruments in it.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117599, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man loves, the more he suffers.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117602, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a great dream, and we are all dreamers in it.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117603, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man dreams, the more he understands.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117604, "lang": "en", "text": "No man can be rich in this world unless he is first poor in spirit.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117605, "lang": "en", "text": "The birth of the world is the death of God.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117606, "lang": "en", "text": "The will of man is a perpetual striving and restless running to and fro.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117607, "lang": "en", "text": "The light of nature is the understanding of the divine wisdom.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117609, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the image of God in man.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117611, "lang": "en", "text": "The will of man is the cause of all evil.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117612, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of man is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117613, "lang": "en", "text": "The love of God is the life of the soul.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117614, "lang": "en", "text": "The wisdom of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117615, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of God is the strength of the soul.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117616, "lang": "en", "text": "The glory of God is the joy of the soul.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117617, "lang": "en", "text": "The peace of God is the rest of the soul.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117618, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117619, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of God is the path of righteousness.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117620, "lang": "en", "text": "The word of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117622, "lang": "en", "text": "The grace of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117623, "lang": "en", "text": "The mercy of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117624, "lang": "en", "text": "The justice of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117625, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117626, "lang": "en", "text": "The glory of God is the light of the world.", "author": "Jakob Böhme", "author_slug": "jakob-bohme", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1624}
{"id": 117640, "lang": "en", "text": "Courage is knowing what not to fear.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117641, "lang": "en", "text": "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117642, "lang": "en", "text": "There are two things a person is least willing to share: command and money.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117644, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest mistake in the treatment of habits is to treat them as if they belonged to the same category. How can one become a mathematician if he does not know what a triangle is?", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117645, "lang": "en", "text": "The true lover of knowledge is always striving after that which is not only true but clear and precise.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117646, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul takes care of all that is inside the body, and treats it as noble, just as a good ruler should treat his subjects.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117648, "lang": "en", "text": "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117649, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest form of human courage is the courage of an individual to accept himself.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117650, "lang": "en", "text": "The only real vulnerability or evil is ignorance.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117652, "lang": "en", "text": "The fear of death is not only a great evil, but a weakness which destroys the entire power of the soul.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117653, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117657, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117658, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon external things, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117659, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117660, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest defect in education is that it has no aim.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117663, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing you can give to a friend is to increase his self-respect.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117664, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing for a community is that it have wise men in it.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117665, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing for an individual is to have a friend who is wise.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117666, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest wealth is to live in true contentment which requires virtue and wisdom.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117667, "lang": "en", "text": "The true lover of knowledge is always holding that he knows nothing.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117670, "lang": "en", "text": "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; and when voluntary, becomes a joy.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117672, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest mistake in the treatment of humans is that physicians forget that they are dealing with the whole body, and not with some individual part.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117674, "lang": "en", "text": "There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot help.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117681, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.", "author": "Plato", "author_slug": "plato", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -348}
{"id": 117685, "lang": "en", "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117686, "lang": "en", "text": "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117687, "lang": "en", "text": "The whole is more than the sum of its parts.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117689, "lang": "en", "text": "To perceive is to suffer.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117690, "lang": "en", "text": "We make war that we may live in peace.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117691, "lang": "en", "text": "What the statesman is most anxious to produce is not only peace, but a disposition to friendship.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117692, "lang": "en", "text": "Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117693, "lang": "en", "text": "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117695, "lang": "en", "text": "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117696, "lang": "en", "text": "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117697, "lang": "en", "text": "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117698, "lang": "en", "text": "The law is reason, free from passion.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117699, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of the mind and the life of the senses are enemies.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117700, "lang": "en", "text": "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "women", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117701, "lang": "en", "text": "The state comes into existence for the sake of life, and exists for the sake of good life.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117702, "lang": "en", "text": "The true end, we assert, of the state is not the good of any particular class, but the good of the community.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117703, "lang": "en", "text": "To give aid to an associate in trouble, though it be not a return for anything, is characteristic of a man cultivated in excellence.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117704, "lang": "en", "text": "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117705, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117706, "lang": "en", "text": "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117707, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life is thought to be one of excellence in activity.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117708, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy man is one who lives in accordance with the virtues, and is never involuntarily deprived of any good thing.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117709, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life is regarded as one that is good and noble and pleasant; for each activity with reason implies pleasure, and life needs pleasure as well as virtue if it is to have blessings.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117710, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life is a life in accordance with complete virtue lived without impediment.", "author": "Aristotle", "author_slug": "aristotle", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -322}
{"id": 117711, "lang": "en", "text": "I know that I know nothing.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117713, "lang": "en", "text": "Beware the barrenness of a busy life.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117714, "lang": "en", "text": "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117716, "lang": "en", "text": "He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117717, "lang": "en", "text": "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117718, "lang": "en", "text": "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117721, "lang": "en", "text": "Enjoy yourself as long as you do not harm anyone and no one harms you.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117722, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117723, "lang": "en", "text": "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117724, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of change is to let go of what no longer fits your growth.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117725, "lang": "en", "text": "Understanding a question is half an answer.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117730, "lang": "en", "text": "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we must appear, to be no less than we are.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117731, "lang": "en", "text": "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would have.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117732, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117733, "lang": "en", "text": "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117735, "lang": "en", "text": "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117736, "lang": "en", "text": "He who loves wisdom is always under the protection of the god.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117737, "lang": "en", "text": "The easiest and noblest way is not to get angry.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117738, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117739, "lang": "en", "text": "The hottest love has the coldest end.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117740, "lang": "en", "text": "The only good I know is knowledge, and the only evil I have experienced is ignorance.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117742, "lang": "en", "text": "The only true companion is wisdom and the only true riches is self-knowledge.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117743, "lang": "en", "text": "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117744, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man speaks because he has something to say; the fool because he has to say something.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117745, "lang": "en", "text": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117746, "lang": "en", "text": "He who loves money, money soon begins to hate him.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117747, "lang": "en", "text": "Envy is the ulcer of the soul.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117749, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", "author": "Socrates", "author_slug": "socrates", "school": "ancientGreek", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -399}
{"id": 117751, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117753, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man feels no more pain than the fool, but he enjoys pleasure more.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117756, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to living is expectation, which depends on tomorrow and loses today.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117757, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is a good citizen, not because he obeys the laws, but because he recognizes their necessity.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117758, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living well and the art of making a good impression, though not the same, yet have between them this in common, that the presence of the one unconsciously begets the other.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117761, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; none of these can be possessed without the other.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117762, "lang": "en", "text": "The justice which is according to nature is a pledge of mutual advantage, to keep us from harming one another and suffering harm.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117763, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always seeking wisdom; the fool thinks himself wise already.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117764, "lang": "en", "text": "The time which sees the birth of procrastination, the mother of all pestilences.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117765, "lang": "en", "text": "To feel the affection of friends, even after death, is the noblest and kindest part of friendship.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117766, "lang": "en", "text": "We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117767, "lang": "en", "text": "We should every night recapitulate what has been done during the day, for nothing so conduces to the promotion of wisdom, than this custom.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117769, "lang": "en", "text": "What mad author of our being made us from different molds, when with equal speed the just and the unjust are hurried down the rapid stream of life?", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117773, "lang": "en", "text": "What is the highest point of wisdom? A good disposition of the mind, joined to a sound understanding, and coupled with indomitable courage.", "author": "Epicurus", "author_slug": "epicurus", "school": "epicureanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -270}
{"id": 117774, "lang": "en", "text": "He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who lives forever.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117775, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the quality of our work which will please and live, not the quantity.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117776, "lang": "en", "text": "No man was ever wise by chance.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117777, "lang": "en", "text": "We should every night call our souls to an account.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117780, "lang": "en", "text": "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117781, "lang": "en", "text": "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117782, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the characteristic of the wise to resist pleasures and to be the masters of them, not slaves.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117784, "lang": "en", "text": "No man has had enough time, if you consider what he has wasted.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117785, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the nature of the wise to resist piercings by the thorns of fortune.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117788, "lang": "en", "text": "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is never permitted to prove himself.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117791, "lang": "en", "text": "If you wish to improve, be content to appear clunsy and awkward.", "author": "Seneca", "author_slug": "seneca", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 65}
{"id": 117794, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not be ashamed to be helped; things do not always happen as you wish.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 117795, "lang": "en", "text": "The happiness of a man in this life does not so much depend on what he feels but on what he does.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 117796, "lang": "en", "text": "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to wipe out at any moment.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 117797, "lang": "en", "text": "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "author_slug": "marcusaurelius", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 180}
{"id": 117799, "lang": "en", "text": "If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 117800, "lang": "en", "text": "The first and only thing of real value is reason, and the cultivation of reason collects all other things.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 117801, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't go looking for payback when you've been wronged. Instead, look for a lesson to be learned.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 117802, "lang": "en", "text": "It's not the events themselves that disturb the minds of men, but the views which they take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 117804, "lang": "en", "text": "Don't be ashamed to learn. Learning is the beginning of perfection.", "author": "Epictetus", "author_slug": "epictetus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 135}
{"id": 117806, "lang": "en", "text": "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117808, "lang": "en", "text": "No man can feel himself to be prosperous without being so, in comparison with other men.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117809, "lang": "en", "text": "Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117810, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not seek for things that are far. Look to that which lies near at hand.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117812, "lang": "en", "text": "Change is the easiest and laziest thing in the world: every man does it; some do nothing else.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117813, "lang": "en", "text": "Avoid arrogance in prosperity, and be not sad in adversity.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117814, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not possible to live a happy life without the intercourse of friends.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117815, "lang": "en", "text": "In anger we should refrain from speech and in doubt from action.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117816, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to use our faults to get what we want.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117818, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is everywhere to the eyes that can see.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117819, "lang": "en", "text": "We ought to use moderation in our enjoyment of even what is good.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117821, "lang": "en", "text": "There is harmony where there is proportion.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117822, "lang": "en", "text": "Choose rather to be a herring than a man's slave.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117824, "lang": "en", "text": "Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117827, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the same always and everywhere.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117828, "lang": "en", "text": "There is a wisdom that is woe to its possessor.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117829, "lang": "en", "text": "When looking at life, look to the end.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117835, "lang": "en", "text": "Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117836, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to use our imagination.", "author": "Pythagoras", "author_slug": "pythagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -490}
{"id": 117838, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is only a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117839, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all something, but none of us are everything.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117840, "lang": "en", "text": "The least thing upsets me these days. So I read. I don't know what I am looking for. I suppose I am trying to find myself, or find some elusive thing that I cannot have.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117842, "lang": "en", "text": "The more I see, the more I know that I see nothing.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117844, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to escape from the corruption of bad company is to die.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117845, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest advantage of living is to converse with those who were born before us.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117846, "lang": "en", "text": "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117847, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117848, "lang": "en", "text": "The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117849, "lang": "en", "text": "The only excuse for God is that there is no God.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117850, "lang": "en", "text": "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117853, "lang": "en", "text": "The last act is tragic, however happy all the acts that precede it.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117854, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to escape from Custom is by means of other Customs.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117856, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart's reason is not that of the mind's reason.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117858, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to escape from a self is to lose oneself in something or Someone greater.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117859, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117860, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "author_slug": "blaise-pascal", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1662}
{"id": 117861, "lang": "en", "text": "A man is never more in his own company than when he is alone.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117864, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not teaching you anything. I am simply helping you to remember what you already know.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117866, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all philosophers, whether we know it or not.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117868, "lang": "en", "text": "The most universal quality is not talent, or energy, or will, but common sense.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117869, "lang": "en", "text": "A man is never more innocent than when he is asleep.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117871, "lang": "en", "text": "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117872, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important day in a life is the day when we decide whether to take things as they come or to refuse them.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117874, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117875, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul of man is of a very compounded contexture.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117876, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be sufficient unto one's self.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117877, "lang": "en", "text": "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "author_slug": "michel-de-montaigne", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1592}
{"id": 117878, "lang": "en", "text": "Ipsa scientia potestas est.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117879, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117880, "lang": "en", "text": "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117881, "lang": "en", "text": "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.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117883, "lang": "en", "text": "Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117884, "lang": "en", "text": "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117885, "lang": "en", "text": "It is a sad thing when men have fought for their liberties, and their children and grandchildren fight to give them up.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117886, "lang": "en", "text": "Beauty itself doth of itself pass into the inward parts of the man, and never goes out from the eyes.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117887, "lang": "en", "text": "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117888, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest part of a man's life is spent in the shop, in the counting-house, in the house of another; therefore, unless a man can make a pleasure upon every occasion, he is altogether a slave.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117889, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117890, "lang": "en", "text": "The moment is the truth of time.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117892, "lang": "en", "text": "The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117893, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame to stand in the rank of those who increasingly seek her out.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117894, "lang": "en", "text": "Beauty itself doth of itself inform the judgment, and give the mind a feeling of gallantry, pleasure, and satisfaction.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117895, "lang": "en", "text": "A prudent question is one half of wisdom.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117896, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117897, "lang": "en", "text": "A man that flies from his fear may find it behind him.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117899, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest part of a man's life is spent in the state which in Spain is called the 'porque no' — that is to say, no better reason than 'Because not'.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117900, "lang": "en", "text": "The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of creativity.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117901, "lang": "en", "text": "It is a sad thing to think of, and pass over, but this is true; that this world is got into a pit wherein there is no standing; only those that climb out bear themselves above the rest of the company.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117902, "lang": "en", "text": "Beauty itself doth of itself keep an equal measure, and is not subject to the eye of the beholder.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117904, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not possible to love and to be wise.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117905, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no comparison between the joy that we feel in the contemplation of beauty and the joy that we feel in the possession of wealth.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117906, "lang": "en", "text": "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused the fall of man.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117907, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "author_slug": "francis-bacon", "school": "empiricism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1626}
{"id": 117908, "lang": "en", "text": "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117910, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we may find to doubt.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117911, "lang": "en", "text": "I have made a ceaseless effort not to deceive myself, and not to think that I have succeeded.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117913, "lang": "en", "text": "I suppose myself to have been created from nothing by a supremely powerful God; He not deceptive, but capable of deceiving me.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117914, "lang": "en", "text": "I am a thing that thinks: whatever I am, I am a thinking thing.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117915, "lang": "en", "text": "In order to improve the mind, we ought only to study the mathematics and that in mathematics only what is clear.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117916, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is by nature capable of understanding all things.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117917, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind does not need to be taught how to think, but to be taught what to think about.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117918, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not usually perceptive of the distinction between mind and body.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117919, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the place of truth.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117920, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not formally the image of any corporeal thing.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117921, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not only present in the whole body, but also in every one of its parts.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117923, "lang": "en", "text": "The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad it is.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117925, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing more useful than the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong, in order to render one's life less unhappy either in this world or in the world to come.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117926, "lang": "en", "text": "I have made a ceaseless effort not to diminish from my passion for truth.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117927, "lang": "en", "text": "I have never done anything but weep and blaspheme.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117928, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that truly heals pain is a profound experience of understanding.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117930, "lang": "en", "text": "I have never been able to accept any teaching which was not based on clear and certain reasoning.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117931, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we inquire into truth, the more we discover our ignorance.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117934, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is distinct from the body, and indeed is of a nature opposite to it.", "author": "René Descartes", "author_slug": "renedescartes", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1650}
{"id": 117936, "lang": "en", "text": "All the materials of this composition are borrowed from the two following sources; from ourselves, and from our senses.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117937, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth springs from argument amongst friends.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117938, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we may imagine we know.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117939, "lang": "en", "text": "No testimony can have authority over reason.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117940, "lang": "en", "text": "The only solid basis of criticism is taste.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117941, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all of us mere bundles of different perceptions.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117942, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind has a natural propensity to spread itself on external objects.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117943, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is a kind of auxiliary sense, which is always at hand when the other senses fail us.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117944, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man looks upon himself as upon an acquaintance from whom he has nothing to fear.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117945, "lang": "en", "text": "When I reflect on the natural mutability of human affairs, my faith and confidence in any man, though ever so wise, or ever so good, is utterly overthrown.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117947, "lang": "en", "text": "The only solid foundation we can give to this towering fabric of human happiness and durable liberty is to found it on the solid basis of reason and of truth.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117948, "lang": "en", "text": "The memory of man is very fallible; and he is apt to forget the numerous instances in which he has been deceived by the like appearances.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117949, "lang": "en", "text": "All the materials of thinking are derived either from outward experience or inward impression; that is, from our senses or reflections.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117950, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind has a set of faculties, which are, in a manner, unknown to us; and when we apply ourselves to the examination of any of these, we are apt to fall into mistakes, and to draw prejudices from the illusions of the imagination.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117951, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding, when it operates upon external objects, has certain qualities, which are very different from those qualities, that belong to the mind, when it only considers the relations of its own ideas.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117952, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is a restless faculty, that cannot long remain at a stand; and when it is once set in motion, will carry us through a greater variety of ideas, than the memory, or the senses, or the understanding would ever be able to suggest.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117953, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is a kind of factory, that is constantly employed in manufacturing ideas, and in combining them in all possible ways and relations.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117954, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding is not only the first principle of all our thoughts and actions, but the source of all our happiness and misery.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117955, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not only a passive spectator of the appearances of things, but an active power, that is continually employed in forming new ideas, and in combining them in all possible ways and relations.", "author": "David Hume", "author_slug": "david-hume", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1776}
{"id": 117956, "lang": "en", "text": "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 117957, "lang": "en", "text": "He that in the division of things lays nothing to the public stock, provides for himself nothing in common with mankind.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 117959, "lang": "en", "text": "He that in the division of things lays aside honor and virtue, and esteems not the true glory of his being above all the profit and pleasure he is able to gather to himself, must at last come short of true and solid happiness.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 117960, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of perpetuating themselves in their assemblies constitutes them a distinct and independent body, and to make them a kind of political house always in being; otherwise, they might be more justly called a great council of the commonwealth.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 117961, "lang": "en", "text": "I know not what others may think or feel, but the long and the short of it is, I can get more pleasure of this one chair than of all the thrones in Christendom.", "author": "John Locke", "author_slug": "john-locke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1704}
{"id": 117963, "lang": "en", "text": "Patriotism is a noble passion, but it can be perverted into a dangerous one.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117967, "lang": "en", "text": "The social order is a sacred right which is the basis of all other rights.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117968, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who thinks himself the master of others is still a greater slave than they are.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117969, "lang": "en", "text": "The stronger the passion, the more it enslaves its victim.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117970, "lang": "en", "text": "The source of all our judgments is first an impression, and then a conviction.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117971, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is no longer a place where one can live in peace and innocence.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117972, "lang": "en", "text": "The first law of nature is to provide for one's own preservation.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117973, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one reflects on the matter, the more one sees that society as we know it is indeed evil.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117974, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who knows how to flatter with grace is the most accomplished of rascals.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117975, "lang": "en", "text": "I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117976, "lang": "en", "text": "The noblest problem in the world is to make living worthy of love.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117977, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst kind of inequality, for my part, is that which is established by law and sanctioned by government.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117988, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is afraid to speak the truth is a slave.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117990, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is not contented with what he has, would not be if he obtained his desires.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117991, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst kind of inequality is that which makes some depend upon others for their livelihood.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117996, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117997, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst use of life is to spend it in idleness and in the pursuit of pleasure.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 117999, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is born in a station is not obliged to remain in it.", "author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "author_slug": "rousseau", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1778}
{"id": 118002, "lang": "en", "text": "In general, men are quick to believe that which they'll find to be their advantage.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118003, "lang": "en", "text": "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118005, "lang": "en", "text": "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118006, "lang": "en", "text": "A man in debt is given to lying, and a lying tongue is but the trumpet of a monster.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118007, "lang": "en", "text": "A wise man learns by his mistakes, a fool by other men's.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118009, "lang": "en", "text": "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118011, "lang": "en", "text": "Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118013, "lang": "en", "text": "He that climbs the highest has the most to fall of.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118014, "lang": "en", "text": "He that is known to be unable to keep a secret, will be trusted with none.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118015, "lang": "en", "text": "He that is not valiant cannot be faithful.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "author_slug": "benjaminfranklin", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1790}
{"id": 118019, "lang": "en", "text": "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118020, "lang": "en", "text": "Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118021, "lang": "en", "text": "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118022, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118023, "lang": "en", "text": "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118026, "lang": "en", "text": "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118027, "lang": "en", "text": "Walk softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118029, "lang": "en", "text": "Every day is lost in which no progress is made.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118030, "lang": "en", "text": "The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118031, "lang": "en", "text": "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118032, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118033, "lang": "en", "text": "The government you elect is the government you deserve.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118034, "lang": "en", "text": "The people can never willfully and knowingly elect a representative worthy of their trust.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson", "author_slug": "thomasjefferson", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1826}
{"id": 118037, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118038, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we see of the world, the more we are disposed to pity others rather than to envy them.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118040, "lang": "en", "text": "The American Revolution was to decide whether men are to be ruled by reason and persuasion or by force.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118042, "lang": "en", "text": "The basis of all political systems is the opinion of the people.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118043, "lang": "en", "text": "The more perfect civilization is, the more it must rely upon the truthfulness of its citizens.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118045, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of life is not in its duration, but in its use; and it is often longer than is necessary to any good purpose.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118046, "lang": "en", "text": "The most powerful argument against slavery is the fact that it is unprofitable.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118047, "lang": "en", "text": "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.", "author": "Thomas Paine", "author_slug": "paine", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1809}
{"id": 118050, "lang": "en", "text": "Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118051, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118053, "lang": "en", "text": "The first lesson a man must learn is that there is a debt to pay.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118054, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a house of mirrors.  What appears is never the truth.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118055, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is awaiting the arrival of the best things is probably easy to deal with.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118056, "lang": "en", "text": "The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118057, "lang": "en", "text": "The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118058, "lang": "en", "text": "The virtue in most request is common sense.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118062, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118065, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118066, "lang": "en", "text": "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "author_slug": "ralphwaldoemerson", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1882}
{"id": 118067, "lang": "en", "text": "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118069, "lang": "en", "text": "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118070, "lang": "en", "text": "The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118071, "lang": "en", "text": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118072, "lang": "en", "text": "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118073, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is wider than our views of it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118076, "lang": "en", "text": "The finest qualities of our nature are lost in our haste.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118078, "lang": "en", "text": "The true harvest of my daily life is some new thought, some new insight, or some new angle of vision.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118079, "lang": "en", "text": "The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You might as well expect to be warmed or enlightened by the poet's fictions as to be really warmed and enlightened by his excited language.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118080, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who is not afraid to tell the truth, who does not fear to say what the majority will probably not like, is the rare and true man.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "author_slug": "henry-david-thoreau", "school": "transcendentalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1862}
{"id": 118081, "lang": "en", "text": "Be like a tree and let the birds of worry and care fly over your head.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 118083, "lang": "en", "text": "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 118084, "lang": "en", "text": "Be like a tree and let the birds perch in your branches.", "author": "Rumi", "author_slug": "rumi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1273}
{"id": 118087, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of identifying with the Tao brings perfection to your life.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118088, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the less you understand.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118090, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not separate himself from men, and what he says is treasured by the people.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118091, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not display himself. The more he displays himself to others, the less he has of his own.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118094, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be great. The more he seeks to be great, the less he really is.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118095, "lang": "en", "text": "To lead people, walk beside them.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118096, "lang": "en", "text": "The softest things in the universe overcome the hardest things in the universe.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118097, "lang": "en", "text": "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118098, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of identifying with your own nature is the foundation of your success.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118100, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the moon, he does not shine, but he reflects the light of heaven and of earth.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118101, "lang": "en", "text": "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118103, "lang": "en", "text": "If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118105, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not learned. The more he learns, the less he knows.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118107, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not perfect. He is only less imperfect than others.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118110, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not wise, he only knows that he is not wise.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "author_slug": "laotzu", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -531}
{"id": 118111, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118112, "lang": "en", "text": "The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It does not lean for or against anything. It responds to things but conceals no traces; then, like a perfect balance, it is empty.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118113, "lang": "en", "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118114, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like an infant, drifting with the currents, changing at the seasons.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118116, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not confined by physical boundaries. He is free to roam the universe.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118118, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not swayed by the opinions of others. He follows his own path.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118119, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not afraid of death. He knows that it is a natural part of life.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118120, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not attached to material possessions. He knows that they are impermanent.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118121, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not disturbed by external events. He remains calm and centered.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118122, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not concerned with fame or fortune. He seeks only to live in harmony with the Tao.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118123, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not bound by social conventions. He follows his own inner guidance.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118124, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not afraid of solitude. He finds companionship in nature and the universe.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118126, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not attached to his own opinions. He is open to new ideas and perspectives.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118130, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not attached to his own identity. He knows that the self is an illusion.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118131, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not bound by the limitations of the mind. He transcends thought.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118135, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like a mirror, reflecting all things but not holding onto any.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118136, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the wind, blowing where it will, and not bound by any one place.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118137, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the tortoise, who carries his home on his back, and is never without shelter.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118138, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the river, flowing always onward, and never resting in one place.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118139, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the valley, receiving all things and giving nothing back.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118140, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the sun, shining on all things, and bringing light to the world.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118142, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the stars, guiding travelers in the night, and bringing hope to the world.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118143, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the earth, supporting all things, and giving life to all things.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118144, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the sky, covering all things, and protecting all things.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118145, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the water, flowing always downward, and seeking the lowest place.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118146, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is like the fire, burning always upward, and seeking the highest place.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118147, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the wind, blowing always onward, and seeking the farthest place.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118151, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage is like the frost, covering all things, and bringing beauty to the world.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 118152, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is like a dream and the flitting revels of the night. Verify all things and you will find that they are all like this.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118153, "lang": "en", "text": "Brahman is real, the world is unreal, God is real, and the individual soul is not different from God.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118154, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never elated by praise nor depressed by blame.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118155, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not the doer, nor is it affected by the results of actions.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118156, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the cause of bondage and liberation. It is the cause of both good and bad.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118157, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowledge is the eye of the soul.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118158, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is one, though the wise express it in a hundred different ways.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118160, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the root of all good and all evil.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118161, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never disturbed by the vicissitudes of life.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118163, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is God's creation, and it is not different from Him.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118164, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of life is to realize the self.", "author": "Adi Shankara", "author_slug": "adi-shankara", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 820}
{"id": 118171, "lang": "en", "text": "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 118172, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we grow in knowledge, the more our heart expands and the more it will be filled with love and compassion.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 118173, "lang": "en", "text": "The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the world will change itself.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 118176, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of misery and ignorance. It is we who must go out and preach this gospel of salvation to the suffering humanity.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 118177, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest sin? To say that I am weak, for all this universe is myself. God delights in our woes, never in our joys.", "author": "Swami Vivekananda", "author_slug": "swami-vivekananda", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 118200, "lang": "en", "text": "We read the world wrong and then we say that it deceives us.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118201, "lang": "en", "text": "The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the sea, where all the rivers come.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118204, "lang": "en", "text": "The one who plants trees, knowing that others will sit in the shade, starts with the most Utopian of all dreams: the hope that the world can be better than we found it.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118209, "lang": "en", "text": "The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, still, always the same. The great wisdom is like the river, ever changing, and more abundant.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118210, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not respectful of beauty. It has to be captured and tamed and made a part of one's self.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118211, "lang": "en", "text": "The one who plants trees, knowing that they may never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.", "author": "Rabindranath Tagore", "author_slug": "rabindranath-tagore", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 118213, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker must be humble, for knowledge is only for the humble.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118214, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is like a bird: love is its wings, and contentment is its food.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118215, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the value of his soul and does not barter it for anything less than God.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118216, "lang": "en", "text": "The best of men are they who are the furthest from the world and the nearest to God.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118217, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a garden: its fruits are deeds, and its flowers are words.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118218, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker of knowledge is in a state of jihad [struggle] as long as he is seeking.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118219, "lang": "en", "text": "The best of all good deeds is the one that is done with sincerity and humility.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118221, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a mirror: if you want it to reflect the light of God, you must keep it clean and polished.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118222, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker of truth is he who is willing to be corrected and to learn from others.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118223, "lang": "en", "text": "The best of all prayers is the one that is offered with a pure heart and a humble spirit.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118224, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst of all sins is the sin that is done with knowledge and intention.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118226, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker of knowledge is like a traveler: he must be prepared for hardship and difficulty.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118227, "lang": "en", "text": "The best of all companions is the one who reminds you of God and encourages you to do good.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118228, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst of all companions is the one who leads you away from God and encourages you to do evil.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118229, "lang": "en", "text": "The seeker of knowledge is responsible for the knowledge he seeks.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118232, "lang": "en", "text": "The best provision is provision that suffices.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118235, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all curses is to be heedless of God.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118236, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all blessings is to be mindful of God.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118239, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all enemies is the enemy within.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118240, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all friends is the friend who reminds you of God.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "author_slug": "al-ghazali", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1111}
{"id": 118278, "lang": "en", "text": "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118279, "lang": "en", "text": "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118281, "lang": "en", "text": "The formula of human happiness is to live with those we love, to be useful, and to do something which we think is good.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118284, "lang": "en", "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupid person is like unfermented dough.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118285, "lang": "en", "text": "Money is coined liberty and at the same time it is the most enslaving thing imaginable. There is no doubt that to the person possessing it, money gives a freedom unknown to the property-less man.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118286, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is far more important than the body. There is nothing more shameful for man than to be afraid of suffering. I am not afraid of suffering.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118288, "lang": "en", "text": "The worst thing is not to be able to love.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118291, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest and most important things in the world are done by the uneducated, but they are done by people who possess the fear of God, the fear of sin.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "author_slug": "fyodor-dostoevsky", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1881}
{"id": 118343, "lang": "en", "text": "He was as though he were not only outside himself but also outside all mankind.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118344, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's destruction is the completion of his nature.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118345, "lang": "en", "text": "All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118346, "lang": "en", "text": "Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to wave and the other to ward off a dog.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118347, "lang": "en", "text": "Art, it is said, is a world of its own, that the laws of everyday life to not apply in it.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118348, "lang": "en", "text": "Being is a burden, a long-drawn-out dying.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118349, "lang": "en", "text": "Belief in progress, though it cannot be disproved, seems to me more a matter of temperament than anything else.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118350, "lang": "en", "text": "But my fear is my joy, for it has freed me from things that I am not and from things that I must not become.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118352, "lang": "en", "text": "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind on the sand of history only one thing, a carcass of a bureaucracy.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118353, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man is as helpless as an infant and as bewildered as an infant.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118354, "lang": "en", "text": "For in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118355, "lang": "en", "text": "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118357, "lang": "en", "text": "I am free, and that is why I am lost.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118358, "lang": "en", "text": "I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118359, "lang": "en", "text": "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118362, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is always an abyss.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118363, "lang": "en", "text": "One can be a hermit in some physical sense and not in the least in a psychological sense.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118364, "lang": "en", "text": "The messenger was the murderer.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118365, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one was lost in the world, the more it became his property.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118366, "lang": "en", "text": "The true way is along a rope; not every one has the strength to hold to the end.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118367, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing one cannot bear in this world, provided that one can talk about it to someone else.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118369, "lang": "en", "text": "The only ones who achieve much are those who do so without knowing that it is impossible.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118370, "lang": "en", "text": "The animal lives its life, but man tells his own tale to himself.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118371, "lang": "en", "text": "The dizziness which overcomes one who leans too far out over the world's abyss.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118372, "lang": "en", "text": "The belief in progress is a modern superstition.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118373, "lang": "en", "text": "The path is not ready, only when we have passed will the path be ready.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118374, "lang": "en", "text": "The decisive moment in human life is the one in which one says We.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "author_slug": "franz-kafka", "school": "absurdism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1924}
{"id": 118438, "lang": "en", "text": "There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 118439, "lang": "en", "text": "The love of God is not given by God, but acquired by the sufferings of the soul.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 118440, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to escape from a self-centered existence is to descend into some objective truth.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 118441, "lang": "en", "text": "The virtue of humility is nothing but the refusal to be anything but ourselves.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 118443, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no part of me that is not you.", "author": "Simone Weil", "author_slug": "simone-weil", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1943}
{"id": 118445, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own being.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118446, "lang": "en", "text": "Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118448, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all distractions, which hinders most the progress of the soul, is the lack of a definite purpose in life.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118449, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of the world is not the end of the universe, but the end of the world as we know it.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118450, "lang": "en", "text": "The more perfect a thing is, the more it tends to reproduce itself.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118451, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all evils is the corruption of the best.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118452, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know of God, the more we desire to know.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118453, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of the spiritual life is to be free from all dependence of material things.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118455, "lang": "en", "text": "The only truly free man is the man who will not be busy.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118456, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of things is the light of the soul.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118458, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118459, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know of other people's opinions, the deeper will be our own.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118460, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of life is not to be happy in this world or that, but simply to be perfect.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118461, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to avoid error is to know everything, which is plainly impossible.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118464, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we don't know.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118466, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all sins is to be conscious of none.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118467, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary intellectual preparation, enters into dispute or debate with them.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118468, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to know God is to love God.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118469, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to the canonical eradication of heresy is the timidity of the catholic.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118471, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest activity a human can have is to understand.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118473, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all distinctions is between the wise and the unwise.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118474, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118475, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we are ignorant.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118476, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we are in the presence of mystery.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118477, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118478, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we are dependent on God.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118480, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we are called to love.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118481, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of wisdom is to know that you know nothing.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118482, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know we are part of something greater than ourselves.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "author_slug": "thomas-aquinas", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1274}
{"id": 118484, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing is to be received into the mind that is contrary to nature.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118486, "lang": "en", "text": "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118487, "lang": "en", "text": "The wisdom of the ancients is the wisdom of the moderns.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118488, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest perfection of man is to find out the true principles of all things.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118489, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of the world is necessary to the conduct of life.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118491, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118492, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing is so powerful as truth, and often nothing is so flashy, but it is always the last to prevail.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118494, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest perfection of man is to be master of himself.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118495, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he knows that he does not know.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118496, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil is not to know the good.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118498, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118499, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest folly is to think that you know everything.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118510, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest love is to know that you are loved.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118511, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest hate is to know that you are hated.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118515, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest death is to know that you are dead.", "author": "Roger Bacon", "author_slug": "roger-bacon", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1292}
{"id": 118517, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of the intellect is being.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118518, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is the adequation of the intellect and the thing.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118522, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is not free because it is determined by the object.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118528, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the cause of the will's pleasure.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118541, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is naturally inclined to its object, which is the universal good.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118542, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is naturally inclined to know the truth.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118543, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is the rational appetite.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118558, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is the cause of the intellect's misunderstanding.", "author": "Duns Scotus", "author_slug": "duns-scotus", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1308}
{"id": 118565, "lang": "en", "text": "Entities should not be multiplied beyond what is necessary.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118567, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of truth is so great that it can overcome all errors.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118568, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is not contrary to reason, but is above it, not contrary to it.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118569, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is inclined by the intellect, but is not necessitated by it.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118570, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of thought is not the thing itself, but the concept of the thing.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118571, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is the conformity of the intellect with things.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118572, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is not moved by the will, but the will is moved by the intellect.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118573, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is free in its choice, but is determined by the intellect.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118574, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of all action is happiness.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118575, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is not found in external things, but in the soul itself.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118576, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest good is the perfection of the soul.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118577, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is immortal.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118578, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of life.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118579, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of knowledge.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118580, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of action.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118581, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of happiness.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118584, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of all that is beautiful.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118591, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of God is infinite, and His wisdom is inscrutable.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118592, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is free, and its freedom is a gift from God.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118593, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the noblest part of the soul.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118595, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the faculty of knowledge, and it is passive.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118597, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is moved by the senses, but it is not necessitated by them.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118604, "lang": "en", "text": "The will is the cause of the intellect's movement towards despair.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118607, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the cause of the will's movement towards anger.", "author": "William of Ockham", "author_slug": "william-of-ockham", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1349}
{"id": 118611, "lang": "en", "text": "Be willing to be a fool.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118612, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a castle, full of different rooms and chambers.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118613, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is not born to know everything, but to find out what he does not know.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118616, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you try to become like God, the more you become like yourself.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118617, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a mirror, reflecting the image of God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118619, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you seek God, the more you find Him in all things.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118621, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you detach from the world, the more you attach to God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118623, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you empty yourself, the more you are filled with God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118624, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a river, flowing towards its source.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118626, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a flame, burning with the love of God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118628, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a seed, waiting to grow into the image of God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118629, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you surrender to God, the more you find yourself.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118630, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is like a journey, leading to the heart of God.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118631, "lang": "en", "text": "God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118632, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you try to grasp and keep hold of God, the more he slips away.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118633, "lang": "en", "text": "Detach yourself from all things and then you are free and belong to no one and to everyone.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118634, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is in the highest degree noble and is most formal and most simple.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118636, "lang": "en", "text": "The spiritual man does not expect to find God in the object of his love, but in himself.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118637, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know God, the more we realize that we do not know Him.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118638, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of our life is to fashion ourselves to be a living copy and image of Jesus through love and likeness.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118639, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a self-moving power, and nothing can move it except itself.", "author": "Meister Eckhart", "author_slug": "meister-eckhart", "school": "christianThought", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1328}
{"id": 118640, "lang": "en", "text": "He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will likely not reach his destination.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118641, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no matter without form, and no form without matter.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118642, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is infinite and divine, and it is not the work of a mere artisan but of the infinite God.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118643, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is one, infinite, immovable.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118644, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is like a great book, written in the language of mathematics.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118645, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a finite machine but an infinite organism.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118646, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a substance but a form.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118647, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a hierarchy but a democracy.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118649, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a thing but a process.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118650, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a static thing but a dynamic process.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118651, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a substance but a function.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118652, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a dead thing but a living organism.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118653, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a thing but a relation.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118654, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a finite thing but an infinite process.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118655, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a substance but a mode of existence.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118657, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a thing but a way of being.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118661, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a thing but a way of life.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118664, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a single, infinite whole and cannot be divided.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118665, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the form of forms, and it is not possible to find in it a beginning or an end.", "author": "Giordano Bruno", "author_slug": "giordano-bruno", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1600}
{"id": 118666, "lang": "en", "text": "Man has the power to become as he wills himself to be.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118668, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the arbiter and master of his own nature.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118669, "lang": "en", "text": "The dignity of man consists in the fact that he is the only being who is capable of knowing and loving his Creator.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118670, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the only being who can be said to be free, for he is the only one who can choose his own nature.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118672, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest function of reason is to discern the good from the evil.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118674, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the only being who can be said to be happy, for he is the only one who can choose his own happiness.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118679, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the only being who can be said to be rational, for he is the only one who can reason about his own existence.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118683, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a man knows, the more he desires to know the beautiful.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118687, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest function of the imagination is to know and to love God.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118688, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a wondrous creature, a living being who can transform himself into whatever he wishes.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118690, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the intermediary between creatures, familiar with the mysteries of both life and death.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118691, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of man is not fixed, but fluid and adaptable.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118693, "lang": "en", "text": "The dignity of man consists in his ability to rise above his nature.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118695, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a microcosm, a little world, containing within himself the essence of the universe.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118699, "lang": "en", "text": "The dignity of man is founded upon his freedom.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118701, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of life and movement in the body.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118702, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is the only being who can know the truth.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118703, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest good is to be like God.", "author": "Pico della Mirandola", "author_slug": "pico-della-mirandola", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1494}
{"id": 118705, "lang": "en", "text": "Love is the desire for the beautiful.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118706, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is the medicine of the soul.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118707, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest good is to be as like God as possible.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118708, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is immortal because it is always moving towards perfection.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118709, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a living being, endowed with a soul and intelligence.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118710, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of philosophy is to make us better men.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118712, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of life and movement.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118713, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we love, the more we become like God.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118714, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest good is to be united with God.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118715, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of all things.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118718, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of love is the love of wisdom.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118720, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of knowledge is the knowledge of God.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118722, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we are like God.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118723, "lang": "en", "text": "Love is a kind of magic bestowed by God.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118725, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest activity a human can have is learning.", "author": "Marsilio Ficino", "author_slug": "ficino", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1499}
{"id": 118726, "lang": "en", "text": "God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 118727, "lang": "en", "text": "The maximum is not the maximum unless it is the minimum.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 118728, "lang": "en", "text": "The non-other is the absolute maximum, which is not a maximum but the absolute minimum.", "author": "Nicholas of Cusa", "author_slug": "nicholas-of-cusa", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1464}
{"id": 118731, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses, except the intellect itself.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118733, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a collection of things, but a collection of facts.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118734, "lang": "en", "text": "We must therefore seek the principle of things in something else than in matter.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118741, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of immortality.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118744, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of beauty.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118745, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of goodness.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118753, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to account for the order of things is to suppose it to have been created by a wise and powerful being.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118754, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a mirror of the universe.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118755, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a substance which is simple, indivisible, and indestructible.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118756, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a spiritual automaton.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118757, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing in the world which does not bear the mark of some rational order.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118758, "lang": "en", "text": "We are all physicists, for we are all in the world, and the world is a physics lesson.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118759, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a plenum, that is to say, every part of matter is full.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118760, "lang": "en", "text": "Monads have no windows through which anything can enter or leave.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118761, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul acts according to its own laws, and not according to the laws of external things.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118762, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the indivisible atom of substantial form.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118763, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the first actual entity, the first real unity.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118764, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all activity.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz", "author_slug": "gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz", "school": "rationalism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1716}
{"id": 118765, "lang": "en", "text": "The first principle of all things is God.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118767, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a simple substance.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118768, "lang": "en", "text": "The body is a composite substance.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118769, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of beatitude.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118770, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of glory.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118771, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of eternity.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118772, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of infinity.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118773, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of perfection.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118774, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of harmony.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118775, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of order.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118776, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of being.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118777, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of existence.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118778, "lang": "en", "text": "God is the cause of all things.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118779, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is the effect of God's understanding.", "author": "Christian Wolff", "author_slug": "christian-wolff", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1754}
{"id": 118798, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is not a thing to be found in books, but in the heart of man.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118799, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest perfection of man is to be able to understand, to appreciate, and to enjoy the beauties of nature.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118800, "lang": "en", "text": "The more we know, the more we know that we do not know.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118801, "lang": "en", "text": "The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118802, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man has his own manner of seeing, for it is only his eyes that he has.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118803, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is not a thing that can be given to us mortals. It is something we must discover for ourselves.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118806, "lang": "en", "text": "The true end of philosophy is to make us better men.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118809, "lang": "en", "text": "The true philosopher is he who loves wisdom, not he who pretends to possess it.", "author": "Johann Gottfried Herder", "author_slug": "johann-gottfried-herder", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1803}
{"id": 118811, "lang": "en", "text": "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118814, "lang": "en", "text": "The height of a man's success is measured by how deeply he understands the suffering of others.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118816, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is no purpose, the people are the purpose of the state.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118820, "lang": "en", "text": "The true and the beautiful are but different forms of the good.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118821, "lang": "en", "text": "The artist must be in his work, as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118822, "lang": "en", "text": "The world has never yet been known; it has only been dreamed.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118830, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who has no inner life is a slave to his circumstances.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118834, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118836, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a being who makes gods for himself and then comes to resemble them.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118837, "lang": "en", "text": "The height of absurdity to which men can rise is truly astounding; and the more I see of the powers of human reason, the more my belief in God wavers.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118838, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118842, "lang": "en", "text": "The true artist will not be a realist by intention. Reality is not enough for him, it is not interesting.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118843, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil is physical pain.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118844, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to comprehend what mystics call God is to contemplate the marvels of existence.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118846, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is the organization of a people into a unity in order to attain certain ends which cannot be attained by the individual alone.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118847, "lang": "en", "text": "The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118848, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet, in creating, is like the God of the universe.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118849, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest dignity of man lies in his capacity of moral choice.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118850, "lang": "en", "text": "The true artist is not proud; he happily paints as a bird sings.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118851, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is never so genuinely on the defensive as when he is in the act of attacking.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118854, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to comprehend what miracles mean is to have a conception of the possible.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118855, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a purpose, it is a means to an end. Its sole justification for existing is to make social life and human coexistence possible.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118857, "lang": "en", "text": "The beautiful is none other than the beginning of the terrible, which we are still just able to endure, and we admire it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118858, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who lets himself be ruled by his passions is a slave, but he who governs them is a free man.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118860, "lang": "en", "text": "The more limitations one imposes on oneself, the more one frees one's mind.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118861, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet's function is to be truthful to his own age.", "author": "Friedrich Schiller", "author_slug": "friedrichschiller", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1805}
{"id": 118867, "lang": "en", "text": "Where there is danger, there grows the saving power also.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118868, "lang": "en", "text": "But man is a dream, a work of art, who dreams.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118870, "lang": "en", "text": "Full of merit, yet poetry goes forth of itself, like a wind that passes through all things.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118871, "lang": "en", "text": "To the poet, nature is a temple, and he is the priest who interprets her mysteries.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118872, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest would be most lonely, / Learning to dwell with what is nearest.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118875, "lang": "en", "text": "Full of merit, yet poetry goes forth of itself naturally with the Holy Spirit aiding.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118876, "lang": "en", "text": "To the poet, nature is holy.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118877, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest is not to understand, but to love.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118878, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods have not abandoned the earth; they dwell among us, though we know them not.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118880, "lang": "en", "text": "The simplest thoughts are the most difficult to express.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118881, "lang": "en", "text": "The most perfect knowledge is the knowledge of the limits of the known.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118882, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the creator, the maker, and the shaper of beauty.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118883, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the seer, the prophet, and the interpreter of the divine.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118884, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the voice of the people, the interpreter of their joys and sorrows.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118885, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the mirror of the world, reflecting its beauty and its ugliness.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118886, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the interpreter of nature, revealing its secrets and its mysteries.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118887, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the interpreter of the human heart, revealing its depths and its heights.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118888, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the interpreter of the divine, revealing its glory and its majesty.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118889, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the interpreter of the infinite, revealing its wonders and its mysteries.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118890, "lang": "en", "text": "The poet is the interpreter of the eternal, revealing its truths and its beauties.", "author": "Friedrich Hölderlin", "author_slug": "friedrich-holderlin", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1843}
{"id": 118893, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be the physician of the soul.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118894, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the philosopher is to discover the moral law within us.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118895, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is what he makes of himself.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118896, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego posits itself absolutely.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118897, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all reality.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118898, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a legislator of humanity.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118899, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest task for the philosopher is to comprehend the moral world.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118900, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is not merely a passive recipient of impressions, but an active creator.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118901, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a prophet of the future.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118902, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the source of all knowledge.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118904, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all morality.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118906, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all religion.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118908, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all science.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118912, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all politics.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118914, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all history.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118915, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the philosopher is to discover the absolute beauty.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118916, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the basis of all culture.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118917, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a thing, but an act.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118921, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the foundation of all morality.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118922, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the principle of all action.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118923, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the cause of all existence.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118924, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the ground of all being.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118925, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the origin of all thought.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118926, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the source of all truth.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118927, "lang": "en", "text": "The I is the foundation of all knowledge.", "author": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "author_slug": "johann-gottlieb-fichte", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1814}
{"id": 118928, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the only true object of philosophy.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118929, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is the history of the development of the concept of the absolute.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118930, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature is visible spirit; spirit is invisible nature.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118932, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the essence of man.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118933, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all being.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118934, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is the becoming of the absolute.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118935, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the identity of identity and non-identity.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118936, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all reality.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118937, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all value.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118938, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all truth.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118939, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all beauty.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118940, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all goodness.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118941, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all existence.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118943, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the sole and ultimate end of all philosophy.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118945, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is the center of all reality.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118947, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all possibility.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118948, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is the center of all possibility.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118950, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the identity of the finite and the infinite.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118951, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the ground of all actuality.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118952, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is the center of all actuality.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118953, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the identity of the possible and the actual.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118954, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is the center of all existence.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118955, "lang": "en", "text": "The absolute is the identity of the necessary and the contingent.", "author": "Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling", "author_slug": "friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1854}
{"id": 118957, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is the science of reality.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118958, "lang": "en", "text": "Theology is nothing else but mythology expressed in conceptual form.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118959, "lang": "en", "text": "The first and fundamental truth is that man is, by nature, a social being.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118961, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is contained in the consciousness he has of himself.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118965, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is not an abstraction inherent in each individual.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118966, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is the ensemble of social relations.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118967, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of religion is the deification of human nature.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118968, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of philosophy is the comprehension of the world.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118970, "lang": "en", "text": "God is nothing else than a being projected by the human mind.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118973, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of religion is not to make us happy in this world, but to make us happy in another.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118974, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is contained in the statement that man is a being who thinks.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118975, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of love is that man sees in the woman the embodiment of his highest ideal.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118976, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of man is contained in the recognition of his species as his own nature.", "author": "Ludwig Feuerbach", "author_slug": "ludwig-feuerbach", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1872}
{"id": 118977, "lang": "en", "text": "I am nobody's means to an end.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118978, "lang": "en", "text": "I am my own purpose, and I am not the means to any purpose which is not my own.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118979, "lang": "en", "text": "I do not set up the least-moral worldly principle against the highest-moral one, but I declare war against the principle of morality itself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118980, "lang": "en", "text": "The only law that I recognize is that of my own nature.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118981, "lang": "en", "text": "I am nothing in the world but my own self, and I must fulfill myself according to my nature.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118982, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a moral being, but a natural one.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118983, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a citizen of any state, but a citizen of the world.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118984, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a member of any church, but a free spirit.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118985, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a slave to any master, but my own master.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118986, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a tool for any purpose, but my own purpose.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118987, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a means to an end, but an end in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118988, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a servant of any cause, but my own cause.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118989, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a follower of any leader, but my own leader.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118990, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a believer in any dogma, but my own beliefs.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118991, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a subject of any authority, but my own authority.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118992, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a part of any whole, but a whole in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118996, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a note in any symphony, but a symphony in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118997, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a word in any language, but a language in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118998, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a thought in any mind, but a mind in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 118999, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a dream in any dreamer, but a dreamer in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119000, "lang": "en", "text": "I am not a reflection in any mirror, but a mirror in myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119002, "lang": "en", "text": "I have no other merit and no other aim than being I, than asserting myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119003, "lang": "en", "text": "I am every moment putting off from me my state, my calling, my talent, my virtue, my spirit, but I cannot put off myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119004, "lang": "en", "text": "The unique one is unique precisely because of his nothingness.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119006, "lang": "en", "text": "The only truth is that I am.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119007, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the creator of the world, for it is my world.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119008, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the foundation of all being.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119009, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the only reality, all else is mere appearance.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119010, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the measure of all things.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119011, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the beginning and the end of all things.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119012, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the absolute, the infinite, the eternal.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119013, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the self-affirmation of the world.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119014, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the negation of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119015, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the dissolution of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119016, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the annihilation of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119017, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the consumption of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119018, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the destruction of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119019, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the devouring of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119025, "lang": "en", "text": "I am the self-assertion of all that is not myself.", "author": "Max Stirner", "author_slug": "max-stirner", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119027, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of the positive philosophy is to teach us how to account for all phenomena.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119029, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is the real and essential man.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119030, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is the master-worker and the actual creator of all we see, touch, or feel.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119032, "lang": "en", "text": "The past is the sanctuary of innocence.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119033, "lang": "en", "text": "The present is the sanctuary of action.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119034, "lang": "en", "text": "The future is the sanctuary of hope.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119035, "lang": "en", "text": "The study of society is the study of humanity.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119037, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of society is the science of the future.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119038, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of the future is the science of action.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119039, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of action is the science of the heart.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119041, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of the future is the science of humanity.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119042, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of humanity is the science of society.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119045, "lang": "en", "text": "The science of action is the science of society.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119049, "lang": "en", "text": "The most fundamental laws of human nature are those which determine the development of the intellect.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119050, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important branch of knowledge is the study of man.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119051, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the system of all the sciences.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119058, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the progress of civilization.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119059, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the happiness of mankind.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119060, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the welfare of society.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119061, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the improvement of the human condition.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119062, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the advancement of knowledge.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119063, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the cultivation of the mind.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119064, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the development of the faculties.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119065, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the perfection of the character.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119066, "lang": "en", "text": "The positive philosophy is the only philosophy which can be of any use to the elevation of the soul.", "author": "Auguste Comte", "author_slug": "auguste-comte", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1857}
{"id": 119072, "lang": "en", "text": "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119073, "lang": "en", "text": "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119074, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil of too much liberty is that the weak become the slaves of the strong.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119075, "lang": "en", "text": "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119076, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest harm done is to those who are loved, for they do not understand why they are wounded.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119077, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil of too much liberty is that the individual forgets he is part of a whole.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "author_slug": "mill", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1873}
{"id": 119079, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate criterion of man's conduct is the happiness of his species.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119081, "lang": "en", "text": "The law of equal freedom, taking for its province all human actions, must cover the whole conduct of life.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119103, "lang": "en", "text": "The power of a just cause is in the sincerity of its devotees.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119106, "lang": "en", "text": "The evolution of the world is the work of humanity.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119108, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all republics is the elevation of the race.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119109, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest augmentation of the happiness of society arises from the prosperity of the middle and lower classes.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119110, "lang": "en", "text": "The end is right action, and the means to right action is knowledge.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119111, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of all human progress is in the improvement of the individual.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119112, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate result of all human striving is the attainment of happiness.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119113, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119114, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate test of a man's conscience is his willingness to die for what he has lived for.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119115, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all reforms is the reform of the mind.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119116, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all human action is the attainment of pleasure.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119117, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all evils and the worst of all wastes is the waste of human life.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119118, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all education is the production of a good citizen.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119119, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all blessings is the possession of a good conscience.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119121, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all virtues is justice.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119122, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all religion is the happiness of mankind.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119123, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest of all sciences is the science of human nature.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119124, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate end of all philosophy is the attainment of wisdom.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "author_slug": "herbert-spencer", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1903}
{"id": 119125, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not a container that can be filled but rather a fire that can be kindled.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119126, "lang": "en", "text": "Understanding the epoch in which I live is the same as taking responsibility for it.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119128, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is to make the world problematical.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119129, "lang": "en", "text": "The world in which we live is a world of historical reality.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119130, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of other men and women is a historically mediated process.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119131, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of historical understanding is to comprehend the individuality of an epoch out of the sources themselves.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119132, "lang": "en", "text": "The world of history is a world of spiritual forces.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119133, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not a container that things have in common; it is rather a process of becoming.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119134, "lang": "en", "text": "Life itself, in all its dimensions, is the object of the human sciences.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119137, "lang": "en", "text": "The human sciences have the task of understanding the meaning of human experience.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119138, "lang": "en", "text": "The understanding of other people and of their expressions of life is not a process of abstraction, but of re-experiencing and of re-living.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119139, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the human sciences is to understand the life of the mind in its historical reality.", "author": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "author_slug": "wilhelm-dilthey", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1911}
{"id": 119140, "lang": "en", "text": "There is only one consolation in philosophy, it is the consolation of vanity.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119143, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is a man who finds himself lost in every city except his own.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119144, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119145, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of mankind is the history of the struggle between freedom and necessity.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119146, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can tell us precisely what we knew all along.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119148, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can see the invisible.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119151, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can find the truth in the midst of falsehood.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119154, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can see the future in the present.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119157, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can find the meaning in the meaningless.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119159, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who can see the beauty in the ugly.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119162, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is the microscope with which we examine the world, but we must not forget that the world is there.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119164, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who finds himself lost in the world and tries to find his way out.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119165, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to understand the world is to try to change it.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119178, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of philosophy is the history of the human spirit's search for truth.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119179, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the man who is always questioning the nature of reality.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119182, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of philosophy is the history of the human mind's search for understanding.", "author": "Heinrich Heine", "author_slug": "heinrich-heine", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1856}
{"id": 119184, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point, however, is to change it.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119186, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119187, "lang": "en", "text": "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119188, "lang": "en", "text": "The first requisite of hegemony is a passive rather than active attitude on the part of the masses.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119189, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119190, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119191, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors', and has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment'.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119192, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119195, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie, it must be remembered, has not always been the ruling class.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119196, "lang": "en", "text": "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119197, "lang": "en", "text": "The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, with the mere blow of a pen, fell the enemy; but it can smash the enemy's weapon—the power of terror.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119198, "lang": "en", "text": "The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.", "author": "Karl Marx", "author_slug": "karl-marx", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1883}
{"id": 119199, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a power imposed by society as a whole; it is a machine of oppression of one class by another.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119200, "lang": "en", "text": "The first prerequisite for the realization of communism is the rearing of a generation which has become free from all traditional prejudices.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119201, "lang": "en", "text": "The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119202, "lang": "en", "text": "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119203, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of all past society is the history of class struggles.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119204, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a force imposed from without or above society; it is a force arising from society, but which has become independent and alienated from it.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119206, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, for it has reached the point where it is divided into irreconcilable classes.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119207, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat is the class that suffers most from the anarchy of production and the crises that result from it.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119208, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a society of free and equal individuals, but a power which has become independent and which stands above society.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119209, "lang": "en", "text": "The state is not a power imposed by society on itself; it is a power that has organized itself independently and that has increasingly emancipated itself from society.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119210, "lang": "en", "text": "The first premise of all human existence is, of course, the existence of living individuals.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119211, "lang": "en", "text": "The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119212, "lang": "en", "text": "The proletariat, the modern working class, is the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119213, "lang": "en", "text": "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.", "author": "Friedrich Engels", "author_slug": "friedrich-engels", "school": "marxism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1895}
{"id": 119214, "lang": "en", "text": "To the natural world belongs the psyche, which includes not only our inner awareness of ourselves, but everything that is actually conscious in us.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119215, "lang": "en", "text": "All knowledge of facts is 'relative to some interest'.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119216, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a collection of things in space and time; it is a collection of meanings.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119218, "lang": "en", "text": "The life-world is the world as it is experienced by us in our everyday life.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119220, "lang": "en", "text": "Consciousness is not a stream, but a field.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119221, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is not a substance, but a field of consciousness.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119223, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is the world as it is experienced by us in our natural attitude.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119224, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of phenomenology is to describe the essential structures of experience.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119227, "lang": "en", "text": "The life-world is not a thing, but a process.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119230, "lang": "en", "text": "To the natural world belongs the whole sphere of what exists, and has existed, and will exist, actually or potentially.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119231, "lang": "en", "text": "Every actual and every possible perception is, as such, a perception of something.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119232, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a mere sum of objects, but a coherent system of objects.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119233, "lang": "en", "text": "Consciousness is not something that can be objectified; it is the ultimate subject.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119234, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a world of space and time, of real things which are related to one another in virtue of their real properties.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119235, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is not a thing, not an object, but a subject, a pure 'I' that is conscious of itself.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119236, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the world is not to be found in the things which it contains, but in the relations between them.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119237, "lang": "en", "text": "The natural world is a world of facts, and the task of science is to discover these facts and to establish their relations.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119238, "lang": "en", "text": "The ego is not a substance, but a pure activity, a pure 'I' that is conscious of itself.", "author": "Edmund Husserl", "author_slug": "edmund-husserl", "school": "phenomenology", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1938}
{"id": 119240, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a creature suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119241, "lang": "en", "text": "The problem of the meaning of the world's history is the most significant problem of all.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119243, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern world is like an iron cage.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119244, "lang": "en", "text": "The spirit of capitalism must be understood as a product of certain religious ideas.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119246, "lang": "en", "text": "The routinization of charisma is the process by which charismatic authority is transformed into a more stable and routinized form of authority.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119247, "lang": "en", "text": "The sociologist must be driven by the idea that the world is a cosmos which can be understood and that the way to understand it is through the comparative analysis of social action.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119248, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a creature who, in his capacity for action, is endowed with the faculty of using 'ultimate' ends as 'means.'", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119249, "lang": "en", "text": "Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It requires passion, a sense of judgment, and a sense of proportion.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119250, "lang": "en", "text": "The modern man is in a position to 'make of himself what he pleases.'", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119251, "lang": "en", "text": "The most powerful enemy of the prophet and the saint is not doubt but success.", "author": "Max Weber", "author_slug": "max-weber", "school": "philosophyOfScience", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1920}
{"id": 119252, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a symbol-using (and, to boot, a symbol-misusing) animal.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 119256, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the human being is its capacity for symbolic thought.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 119258, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the human being is not to be found in the mere fact of existing, but in the fact of existing in a certain way.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 119259, "lang": "en", "text": "The world of myth is not a world of arbitrary phantasms; it is a world of significant symbols.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 119260, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of language is not to express thought, but to provoke it.", "author": "Ernst Cassirer", "author_slug": "cassirer", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1945}
{"id": 119341, "lang": "en", "text": "Articulating the past historically does not mean recognizing it 'the way it really was'. It means appropriating a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119342, "lang": "en", "text": "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119343, "lang": "en", "text": "The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the more its price rises on the market.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119346, "lang": "en", "text": "The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119347, "lang": "en", "text": "The cult value of the image is inseparable from its ritual function.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119351, "lang": "en", "text": "Art is not, as the aestheticians say, a 'symbol' of the infinite. It is, on the contrary, the infinite made by human hand, in short, a creation.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119352, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119353, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of philosophy is criticism.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119354, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the translator consists in finding that intended effect upon the language into which he is translating which produces in it the echo of the original.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119357, "lang": "en", "text": "The dialectical image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119358, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the translator is to release in his own language that pure language which is under the spell of another.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119360, "lang": "en", "text": "The past is not a given, but something that is constantly being reconstructed.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119364, "lang": "en", "text": "The image is the dialectical, the flash of insight in which the past and the present come together.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119365, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of the philosopher is to bring the ideas of his time into sharp focus through criticism.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119366, "lang": "en", "text": "The work of art is a product of the collective experience of a society.", "author": "Walter Benjamin", "author_slug": "benjamin", "school": "rationalism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1940}
{"id": 119693, "lang": "en", "text": "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119694, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119695, "lang": "en", "text": "If you are not certain, then you are not yet thinking; so what you need is not more knowledge, but a different and better head.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119696, "lang": "en", "text": "The aspect of things that is most important for us is the one that is most difficult to speak about.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119697, "lang": "en", "text": "A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119698, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of Tautology is of no value.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119699, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence is expressed by grammar.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119700, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119701, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the owner's manner of asking where his slave is from; he does not expect to hear where he is from, but what he is like.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119702, "lang": "en", "text": "The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119703, "lang": "en", "text": "The problems arising from such matters as the nature of truth, or the nature of good and evil, or the nature of beauty, are all similar to the problem: What is the nature of a knot?", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119704, "lang": "en", "text": "The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119706, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is that man is a wrong way round; that what is good for the ant-hill is not good for the man.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119707, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of a proposition is that it is true or false.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119708, "lang": "en", "text": "The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119709, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not something one could hide.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119710, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is my world: this is evident in the fact that the limits of language (the language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119711, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of logic is not a truth of experience.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119713, "lang": "en", "text": "The I, the I think, the I conceive is the human I, the person.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119714, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119715, "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophy is a struggle against the bewitchment of our understanding by the resources of our language.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 119716, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of language is that it is the expression of an opinion.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "author_slug": "ludwig-wittgenstein", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1951}
{"id": 120040, "lang": "en", "text": "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120041, "lang": "en", "text": "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120042, "lang": "en", "text": "When anger rises, think of the consequences.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120043, "lang": "en", "text": "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120045, "lang": "en", "text": "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120046, "lang": "en", "text": "Silence is a true friend who never betrays.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120047, "lang": "en", "text": "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120048, "lang": "en", "text": "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120049, "lang": "en", "text": "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120050, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120051, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120052, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120053, "lang": "en", "text": "I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120054, "lang": "en", "text": "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - that is knowledge.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120055, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of wisdom is never of any mind, unless it be of a peaceful one.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120056, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man is distressed by the love of fame as much as by the hatred of it.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120057, "lang": "en", "text": "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks always of comfort.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120059, "lang": "en", "text": "What the Master wished for were men who would order their own lives and, doing so, set an example to others.", "author": "Confucius", "author_slug": "confucius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -479}
{"id": 120061, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart of the wise man is like a mirror, reflecting good and evil.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 120063, "lang": "en", "text": "The value of a man resides not in what he possesses, but in what he can achieve without possessing.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 120064, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is the lord of the body. If the heart is not secure, the body will not be secure.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 120065, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart of the wise man is like a mirror, it does not lean forward or backward in its responses.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 120066, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of learning is like the blazing up of a fire, while the nature of man is like the fire itself.", "author": "Mencius", "author_slug": "mencius", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -289}
{"id": 120069, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not see the world as it appears, but as it is.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120074, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not cling to any view, but see all views as empty.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120075, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is not a thing, but the absence of all things.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120077, "lang": "en", "text": "The one who knows the truth of things knows that all things are interconnected.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120078, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not see the world as separate, but as one.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120079, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is not a concept, but the absence of all concepts.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120082, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not see the world as permanent, but as constantly changing.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120083, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is not a belief, but the absence of all beliefs.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120086, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise do not see the world as solid, but as insubstantial.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120087, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is not a dogma, but the absence of all dogmas.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120091, "lang": "en", "text": "Emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120092, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of things is to be devoid of nature.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120095, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no Dharma outside of emptiness.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120096, "lang": "en", "text": "The Tathagata teaches only emptiness.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120098, "lang": "en", "text": "The conventional truth is the truth of dependent origination.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120100, "lang": "en", "text": "The Middle Way avoids the extremes of eternalism and nihilism.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120106, "lang": "en", "text": "The Middle Way is the path of non-attachment.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120110, "lang": "en", "text": "The two truths are not separate, not united.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120111, "lang": "en", "text": "The Middle Way is the path of non-conceptualization.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120112, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise understand that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence.", "author": "Nagarjuna", "author_slug": "nagarjuna", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 250}
{"id": 120113, "lang": "en", "text": "A fool sees only himself, a wise man sees an exemplar, a Buddha sees no one.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120114, "lang": "en", "text": "All know the way, but few actually walk it.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120115, "lang": "en", "text": "Awakening is not some great revelation. What is most important is not to examine things, but to cease from conceptual proliferation.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120116, "lang": "en", "text": "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120117, "lang": "en", "text": "Buddha is the man who has no more tasks to perform.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120118, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not confuse the mind with the Buddha.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120119, "lang": "en", "text": "From the top of the hundred-foot pole, still one step more is needed.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120120, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to know the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120121, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowledge is not enlightenment.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120122, "lang": "en", "text": "Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120123, "lang": "en", "text": "Not to know is a disease, to try to know is health.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120124, "lang": "en", "text": "One's nature is the Buddha.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120125, "lang": "en", "text": "Perception is not enlightenment.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120126, "lang": "en", "text": "The Dharma is not something to be attained.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120127, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the root from which all things grow.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120129, "lang": "en", "text": "The way is not found by those who seek it.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120130, "lang": "en", "text": "Those who do not seek, they are the ones who perceive the way.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120131, "lang": "en", "text": "To follow the way, one must first lose the way.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120132, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can only be realized through practice and direct cognition.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120134, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is not far from you at this moment.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120135, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is not to be found in external appearances.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120136, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is to be found in life itself, not in theory.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120137, "lang": "en", "text": "When all things are seen equally, the timeless self-essence is reached.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120138, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all things.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120139, "lang": "en", "text": "The way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120140, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is like a monkey, jumping from one branch to another.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120141, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not a matter of belief, but of direct experience.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120142, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you seek, the less you find.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120143, "lang": "en", "text": "The way is not a matter of knowledge, but of practice.", "author": "Bodhidharma", "author_slug": "bodhidharma", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 528}
{"id": 120149, "lang": "en", "text": "To study the Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, to forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120150, "lang": "en", "text": "When all things are seen equally as the truth, one understands that one is nothing special.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120151, "lang": "en", "text": "In the midst of activity, be quiet. In the midst of words, keep silence. In the midst of giving, be receiving.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120153, "lang": "en", "text": "Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water torn. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120154, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of the universe is not something to be attained. It is something to be realized.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120157, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind that is attached to anything defiles the whole body.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120158, "lang": "en", "text": "When you walk, the wind blows; when you stop, you are still.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120159, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind that is not disturbed by the passing of phenomena is the Way.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120160, "lang": "en", "text": "To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120162, "lang": "en", "text": "You should study not only the ancient sages but also the dust in your own room.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120163, "lang": "en", "text": "When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes close to the boat, you can see that the boat moves.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120164, "lang": "en", "text": "Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120165, "lang": "en", "text": "To know the world without ever going out of your door, you must go out of your door to know the world.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120166, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind creates the world.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120167, "lang": "en", "text": "When all things are seen equally as the truth, one understands the meaning of 'flowing with the world' and 'being one with the world'.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120168, "lang": "en", "text": "To practice is to confirm the self; to confirm the self is to forget the self.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120170, "lang": "en", "text": "The self that is not the body and not the mind is called the true self.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120172, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of the Buddha is to be free from all systems of thought.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120184, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of the Buddha is to be free from all concepts of self and other.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120185, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not something that can be tasted by the tongue.", "author": "Dogen Zenji", "author_slug": "dogen-zenji", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1253}
{"id": 120186, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no contradiction between the law of faith and the law of reason.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120187, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of the philosopher is to reveal the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120188, "lang": "en", "text": "Wisdom is knowledge of the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120189, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate goal of man is to know and to imitate the divine.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120190, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher's error does not consist in being in error, but in thinking one is infallible.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120191, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who does not display his wisdom.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120192, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows, the more one realizes one's ignorance.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120193, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the friend of truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120194, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to make us better human beings.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120195, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not always pleasant, but it is always necessary.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120196, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who knows most, but the one who knows himself.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120197, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher's stone is reason.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120198, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120200, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of life is to seek knowledge and understanding.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120201, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who questions everything.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120202, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who has all the answers, but the one who asks the right questions.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120203, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to free the mind from the chains of ignorance.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120204, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who dares to think for himself.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120205, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not a destination, but a path.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120206, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who knows everything, but the one who knows what is worth knowing.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120207, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no happiness for man except to know the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120208, "lang": "en", "text": "The excellence of the soul is justice.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120209, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not expose himself to chance.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120211, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the perfection of the body.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120214, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate happiness is the contemplation of truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 120215, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing in the intellect that has not first been in the sense.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120216, "lang": "en", "text": "The safety of the people is the highest law.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120218, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble soul always aspires to the heights and is not satisfied with anything less than the truth.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120221, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you realize the extent of your own ignorance.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120223, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120224, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be admired, but to be understood.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120225, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you understand the limitations of your own knowledge.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120226, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of wisdom is to know when to speak and when to remain silent.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120228, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you realize the complexity of the world.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120232, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you understand the interconnectedness of all things.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120233, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of wisdom is to know when to act and when to refrain from action.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120234, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest achievement of the mind is to understand the nature of the soul.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120235, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you realize the importance of humility.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120236, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of happiness is to be conscious of yourself as a spiritual being.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120238, "lang": "en", "text": "The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120239, "lang": "en", "text": "The safety of the people is in their hands and not in the hands of their rulers.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120241, "lang": "en", "text": "Wisdom is the ultimate perfection of man.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120242, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows, the more one realizes the extent of one's own ignorance.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120243, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is a return to the simplicity of nature.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120244, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest achievement of the human mind is the conception of number.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120245, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a riddle, and the key to its solution is within us.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120246, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth is that which is in conformity with reality.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120247, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the most noble of all the faculties of the soul.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120248, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to understand the nature of reality.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120249, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a single, unified whole.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120250, "lang": "en", "text": "The path to knowledge is through questioning and doubt.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120252, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a reflection of the divine order.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120253, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is governed by reason and order.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120254, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all movement and life.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 120256, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a chessboard, and the player on the other side is hidden.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120258, "lang": "en", "text": "The wine of love is drawn, the vessel of life is brimming with it; my heart has been wounded by the darts of the lover, and I burn and am on fire at the thought of the beauty of the beloved.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120259, "lang": "en", "text": "Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring your Winter-garment of Repentance fling. The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120260, "lang": "en", "text": "Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but what avails the plighted troth of man? We are no more than pieces in a game played by hidden players.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120261, "lang": "en", "text": "We are the Mirrors of the Sky; we are the Microcosm (and Man) of Dust. What ever heaves its breast, the Mountain or the Weed, is but a Vapour from the bottomless abyss potential, a bubble on the Sea of Matter, a drop of the endless Rain which hollows Rock, and dries the Dust.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120262, "lang": "en", "text": "The Moving Finger writes the Word of Fate, And moves—but ere the Ink upon the Line Can dry, the Word of the Predestined Scroll Begins to fade—and yet the Hand continues To trace the Letters of another Roll.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120264, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is full of soul-made paraphernalia, and tosh made by the soul, for reasons not always honorable or enduring.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120265, "lang": "en", "text": "We look before and after, and pine for what is not: our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120266, "lang": "en", "text": "Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but what avail? I locked, perchance, my lips and did no more; Then came—Ah, Me!—the Devil with a Vial of Wine or a loaf of Bread—and lo!—whether the one or the other, Evil I wrought, had surely brought to pass what I forbore!", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120267, "lang": "en", "text": "The Vintage now is rich, and Rosy-red, and ripe; and my poor old age is a barren fig.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120268, "lang": "en", "text": "And this I know: whether the one True Light kindle, or the whole world burn, in One Event, in One Reckoning—One Day—", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120269, "lang": "en", "text": "The Moving Finger writes the Book of Fate And moves but on: nor all thy Piety Nor Wit withhold it—no, nor bribe it to come back And blot a Line, and leave in clean erasure, One Sigh too many or one Kiss too much.", "author": "Omar Khayyam", "author_slug": "omar-khayyam", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1131}
{"id": 120270, "lang": "en", "text": "The words you speak become the house you inhabit.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120271, "lang": "en", "text": "I have learned that every heart will get what it prays for most.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120272, "lang": "en", "text": "The moon didn't get laughed at when it was just a thin crescent.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120273, "lang": "en", "text": "Be like the sun, for it shines on everyone.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120274, "lang": "en", "text": "The rain pours down on the just and the unjust alike.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120275, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul herds the body like a shepherd herds sheep.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120276, "lang": "en", "text": "The candle that burns for others can never burn out.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120277, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is like a garden; it can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120278, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a compass, and you are the needle.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120279, "lang": "en", "text": "The wine of love is drawn, the dance of spring begins.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120280, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a mirror; if you look at it, you will see yourself.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120281, "lang": "en", "text": "The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120284, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a bird; if you keep it in a cage, it will not sing.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120286, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a lamp; if you fill it with oil, it will shine.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120288, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a book; if you read it, you will understand it.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120289, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a river; it flows from one life to another.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120294, "lang": "en", "text": "The words of the wise are a compass lost in the desert.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120295, "lang": "en", "text": "The moon didn't fall in love with the water, it was drawn to its own beauty reflected there.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120296, "lang": "en", "text": "The sun needs time to grow its flowers.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120297, "lang": "en", "text": "The music of the moment is the language of the soul.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120298, "lang": "en", "text": "The candle is a prisoner of its own light.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120299, "lang": "en", "text": "The rose's rarest essence: pleasure, pain, ecstasy, and agony.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120300, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is a sea. But do not dive into its depths alone.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120302, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a mirror. What it reflects, it also becomes.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120303, "lang": "en", "text": "The wine of the spirit is the essence of all things.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120304, "lang": "en", "text": "The night is a veil, but the stars are the truth beneath.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120305, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a garden. Cultivate it with love and wisdom.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120307, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a lamp. Let it shine with the light of love.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120308, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a river. Let it flow where it will.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120310, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a mirror. Let it reflect the beauty of the world.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120311, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a flame. Let it burn with the fire of love.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120312, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a compass. Let it guide you to your true north.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120313, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a dream. Let it be a sweet one.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120315, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a journey. Let it be a long and winding one.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 120316, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of wisdom is to be found in the understanding of human nature.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120318, "lang": "en", "text": "The tongue is the sword of the wise and the scourge of the fool.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120319, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who does not expect too much from others.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120321, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who does not allow himself to be deceived by appearances.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120322, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest evil is ignorance.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120323, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to suffer without complaining.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120325, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to forgive.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120326, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest enemy of wisdom is pride.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120327, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest gift is understanding.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120329, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to be alone.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120330, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest sorrow is to be found in the company of fools.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120332, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to be content.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120333, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest wisdom is to be found in the understanding of oneself.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120335, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest mystery is the human heart.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120336, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to keep silent.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120338, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is the seat of wisdom, not the head.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120339, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the value of time.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120343, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the difference between wisdom and folly.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120356, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the difference between life and death.", "author": "Saadi", "author_slug": "saadi", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1291}
{"id": 120358, "lang": "en", "text": "The tragic sense of life is the most profound and authentic expression of the human condition.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120359, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is the only way to live, but it is also the only way to die.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120361, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a wound that never heals.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120364, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to find meaning in life is to create it.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120368, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to overcome the fear of oneself is to know oneself.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120381, "lang": "en", "text": "The tragic sense of life is the theory according to which man is a mystery.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120382, "lang": "en", "text": "Faith is what you die for, not what you live by.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120384, "lang": "en", "text": "The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize the impossibility of knowing.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120385, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to be happy is to be unhappy.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120386, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to be free is to be a slave.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120387, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to be wise is to be a fool.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120388, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to be strong is to be weak.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120389, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to be brave is to be afraid.", "author": "Miguel de Unamuno", "author_slug": "unamuno", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 120390, "lang": "en", "text": "Man has no nature; what he has is history.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120391, "lang": "en", "text": "I am I and my circumstances.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120392, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the capacity to doubt what we think we know.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120393, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not what we believe, but what we can demonstrate.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120394, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that can save us is an enthusiasm for the essential.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120395, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one single being.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120397, "lang": "en", "text": "The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, pitting themselves against an obscure destiny, which they try to clarify and overcome; and those who give up, who abandon themselves, either through carelessness, or through weakness of will, and let themselves be governed by their everyday desires.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120398, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to deal with the world is to embrace it, to take it in our arms, to love it.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120399, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not a thing, but an event, an occurrence in the life of a man.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120400, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a substance, but a function, a process of relating oneself to the world.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120401, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to question the questions.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120402, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a fixed point, but a moving image.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120403, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of philosophy is not to explain the world, but to transform it.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120404, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is the capacity to doubt what we take for granted.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120405, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not what we think, but what we do.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120407, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that is not a means to something else is life itself.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120409, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not something ready-made, but something in the making.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120410, "lang": "en", "text": "The man of action is always naive. He does not know what he is doing, and he does not know what the consequences will be.", "author": "José Ortega y Gasset", "author_slug": "ortega", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1955}
{"id": 120413, "lang": "en", "text": "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120415, "lang": "en", "text": "Sanity is a madness put to sensible uses.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120417, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is the true sanctuary of the individual.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120418, "lang": "en", "text": "The acceptance of authority is the beginning of wisdom.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120420, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have the courage to love it.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120421, "lang": "en", "text": "The life of the imagination is the only compensation for the disappointments of reality.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120424, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's errors are his portals of discovery.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120425, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind that is not to be changed by what it learns deserves never to learn.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120426, "lang": "en", "text": "The only wise thing is not to reason at all in matters of faith, but to feel and obey.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120427, "lang": "en", "text": "The imagination is naturally luxurious, and when it is allowed to run wild, it is apt to create monsters.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120430, "lang": "en", "text": "The only thing that is not required of a genius is genius.", "author": "George Santayana", "author_slug": "george-santayana", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120432, "lang": "en", "text": "The only radical change I know of which has been effected by human effort is the moral change.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120433, "lang": "en", "text": "We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120434, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is what works.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120435, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of genius is the capacity for rapid adaptation.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120436, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of a healthy society is to create the optimum conditions for the fullest possible development of the individual.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120437, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's character is his fate.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120439, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is no rough heap, but it is a cosmos, the order of which must be rational.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120440, "lang": "en", "text": "We do not know in advance what a future experience will be.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120441, "lang": "en", "text": "The only radical remedy I know for mental imbecility is hard, continuous work.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120442, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is willing to give time to anyone who promises to entertain it.", "author": "William James", "author_slug": "william-james", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1910}
{"id": 120443, "lang": "en", "text": "Thinking is not, as many modern theories of reflection assume, doing something completely different in kind from what is done in ordinary everyday life.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120444, "lang": "en", "text": "The essential need in education is the ability to reflect and to use the results of reflection in further experience.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120445, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is the organized continuity of these various acts of reflection.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120448, "lang": "en", "text": "The school is fundamentally an institution arranged to satisfy every kind of interest that children and youth may have.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120453, "lang": "en", "text": "The essential nature of the attitude of intelligence is one of willingness to entertain ideas and try them out.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120454, "lang": "en", "text": "Thinking is not the mere manipulation of old ideas, or the quick production of new ones, but a steady and faithful following of specific ideas into their most distant reaches.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120455, "lang": "en", "text": "The problem of restoring integration and coherence to experience is not only a problem of education but of life experience.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120456, "lang": "en", "text": "The democratic faith is the faith that each and every individual may have a voice in determining the form of the life that is to be lived in common.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120457, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.", "author": "John Dewey", "author_slug": "john-dewey", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 120459, "lang": "en", "text": "The object of thought, then, is the production of belief.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120461, "lang": "en", "text": "Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120462, "lang": "en", "text": "The irritating doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120464, "lang": "en", "text": "We have no power of thinking without signs.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120466, "lang": "en", "text": "The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120467, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is that which is stable enough to serve as a basis for further inquiry.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120468, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific spirit requires a cool head, but a warm heart.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120470, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific method is founded upon observation and experiment.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120471, "lang": "en", "text": "The method of science, as distinguished from the dogmatic method, has been of the greatest service in the history of intellect.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120472, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific method is founded upon the idea of the complete interdependence of phenomena.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120473, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific man must be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, the most fundamental of his philosophical and religious beliefs, if the facts demand it.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120474, "lang": "en", "text": "The scientific man does not aim at an immediate practical application of his discoveries.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120482, "lang": "en", "text": "The real is that which, sooner or later, information will cause to be believed, though it may in a given case never come to be believed.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120483, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of an institution is the truth that is believed in by those who assist in working it.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120496, "lang": "en", "text": "The thirteenth rule of logic is, that we ought to seek nothing but Truth.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "author_slug": "charles-sanders-peirce", "school": "pragmatism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1914}
{"id": 120500, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not a collection of things, but a collection of meanings.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120502, "lang": "en", "text": "The true self is the self as it appears to the community.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120504, "lang": "en", "text": "The community is the only reality that is not relative.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120505, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a system of meanings, and the community is the interpreter of these meanings.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120507, "lang": "en", "text": "The community is the final court of appeal in all matters of truth.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120508, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual is a social product, and the community is the mold in which he is cast.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120509, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is a social construction, and the community is the builder.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120510, "lang": "en", "text": "The community is the final reality, and the individual is but a passing phase in its development.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120512, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is what we make it.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120515, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is a process, not a thing.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120528, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual is a member of a community of interpretation.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120531, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a community of interpretation, action, and truth.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120532, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is what the community of interpretation agrees upon.", "author": "Josiah Royce", "author_slug": "josiah-royce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1916}
{"id": 120534, "lang": "en", "text": "The major advances in cosmological theory have all come from application of familiar concepts into regions where those concepts were not previously thought to be applicable.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120535, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120536, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120537, "lang": "en", "text": "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120538, "lang": "en", "text": "The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as human thought and action are able to affect it.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120539, "lang": "en", "text": "In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120540, "lang": "en", "text": "The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking this truth is found.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120541, "lang": "en", "text": "The history of thought is the history of the development of the concept of freedom.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120542, "lang": "en", "text": "The most important element in the progress of thought is the elimination of ideas which can be dispensed with and are therefore barren.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120543, "lang": "en", "text": "The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it descends from time to time for verification and confirmation.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120544, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a vast machine, but it is not a machine governed by blind chance; it is a machine governed by purpose.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120545, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate foundation of reality is to be found neither in mere thought nor in mere sensation, but in the union of the two.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120546, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of reason is to promote the art of life, and to criticize from within the ultimate grounds of our action.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120548, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a process, and not a thing.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120549, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate facts are, or are capable of forming, a realized unity of many things.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120551, "lang": "en", "text": "The function of language is not to express thoughts, but to provoke them.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120552, "lang": "en", "text": "The major advances in cosmological theory have all come from application of abstract general ideas to the data of observation, and not from the slow accumulation of observations.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120555, "lang": "en", "text": "The most intimate principle of nature is the principle of evolution.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120556, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a vast organism, and man is a part of it.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120558, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate facts are, or are capable of being, contents of experience.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "author_slug": "alfred-north-whitehead", "school": "analyticPhilosophy", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1947}
{"id": 120559, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is characterized by a natural inability to comprehend life.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120560, "lang": "en", "text": "The self, in its reality, is a unity that cannot be analyzed into distinct elements.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120561, "lang": "en", "text": "Life impinges on us from all sides, but we see it only from one side.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120563, "lang": "en", "text": "The self, in its reality, is something other than what it has been for consciousness.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120564, "lang": "en", "text": "The self does not think; it hardly reflects; it acts.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120565, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is the immediate given, the primary reality.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120566, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a thing; it is a direction.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120567, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a substance; it is a process.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120568, "lang": "en", "text": "The self is not a thing; it is a tendency.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 120591, "lang": "en", "text": "Water is the principle of all things.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120599, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120601, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120603, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120604, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest knowledge is knowing the limits of one's own knowledge.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120605, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not reasonable, it is only intelligible.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120606, "lang": "en", "text": "The first question for philosophy is not what is the meaning of life, but what is the nature of reality?", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120608, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to understand the world is to question it.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120609, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest virtue is wisdom.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120611, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest sorrow is in not knowing the truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120612, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest danger is in not questioning the truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120613, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest hope is in the pursuit of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120614, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest fear is in the avoidance of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120615, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest joy is in the discovery of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120616, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest pain is in the denial of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120617, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest peace is in the acceptance of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120618, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest chaos is in the rejection of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120619, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest order is in the understanding of truth.", "author": "Thales of Miletus", "author_slug": "thales-of-miletus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -548}
{"id": 120622, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not necessary to have a light to kindle a light.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120623, "lang": "en", "text": "The most beautiful exchange is that of soul for soul.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120624, "lang": "en", "text": "The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120625, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of nature is such that it is most accustomed to change.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120626, "lang": "en", "text": "War is the father of all things.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120627, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not necessary to take a bath and put on perfume to hide one's stench.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120629, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.", "author": "Heraclitus", "author_slug": "heraclitus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120630, "lang": "en", "text": "You cannot know what is not true, nor express it.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120636, "lang": "en", "text": "It is necessary that what can be spoken and thought of is.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120637, "lang": "en", "text": "For the same thing is for thinking and for being.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120638, "lang": "en", "text": "For it is the same to think and to be.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120639, "lang": "en", "text": "For never shall this be proved, that things that are not are.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "opportunity", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120644, "lang": "en", "text": "For it is impossible for anything to pass away into what is not.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120645, "lang": "en", "text": "For it is of a necessity that what is, is.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120646, "lang": "en", "text": "For it is impossible for anything to be brought into being from what is not.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120647, "lang": "en", "text": "It is necessary to say and to think that only being is, for being is, but nothing is not.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120648, "lang": "en", "text": "For never shall you enforce what is not to be.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120649, "lang": "en", "text": "For this way of inquiry is the only one that is.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120650, "lang": "en", "text": "For in saying that something is not, you are saying that something is.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120651, "lang": "en", "text": "For thought and being are one and the same.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120652, "lang": "en", "text": "For if it were not, you would not have thought of it.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120653, "lang": "en", "text": "For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120654, "lang": "en", "text": "For you cannot find thinking without being, nor being without thinking.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120655, "lang": "en", "text": "For the way of truth is that it is, and that it cannot not be.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120656, "lang": "en", "text": "For the way of opinion is that it is, and that it can not be.", "author": "Parmenides", "author_slug": "parmenides", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -470}
{"id": 120658, "lang": "en", "text": "We must believe that for those who do not wish to perceive the truth, the truth is not.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120660, "lang": "en", "text": "Man is a slave to his necessities.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120663, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a kind of fire.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120664, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms are infinite in number and eternal.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120667, "lang": "en", "text": "The atoms combine to form the world.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120668, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is eternal and infinite.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120669, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by chance.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120670, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by necessity.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120671, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by reason.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120672, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by the atoms.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120673, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by the void.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120674, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by the soul.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120675, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by the gods.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120676, "lang": "en", "text": "The beginning of wisdom is the wish to be wise.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120677, "lang": "en", "text": "We must believe in free will, we have no choice.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120678, "lang": "en", "text": "The good is that which is not pleasant to us when we do it, but pleasant when we have done it.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120679, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy man is the man who has broken the chains of passion and lives in the calm of reason.", "author": "Democritus", "author_slug": "democritus", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -360}
{"id": 120680, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul never thinks without an image.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120683, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is the source of all things.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120684, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the principle of life.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120686, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the image of the intelligible world.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120687, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the principle of the soul.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120689, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the principle of the intelligible world.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120690, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of the sensible world.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120693, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul's duty is to lead us to the good, the divine, the beautiful.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120694, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man never knows for certain, the fool never doubts.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120696, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a single living being, encompassing all living beings within it.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120697, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the most important thing in the world, and the body is only its shadow.", "author": "Plotinus", "author_slug": "plotinus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 270}
{"id": 120700, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not a substance, but a series of states.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120701, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a harmony of opposites.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120703, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a symphony of number.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120704, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a mirror, it reflects what it sees.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120705, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a book written in the language of mathematics.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120708, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to suffer.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120711, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to love.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120712, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a garden, it grows what it plants.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120714, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to be free.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120716, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a symphony of spheres.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120717, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to be still.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120719, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a reflection of the divine mind.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120720, "lang": "en", "text": "The path to wisdom is paved with questions, not answers.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120721, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a mirror, reflecting the universe.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120722, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to use our pleasures.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120723, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a symphony, and we are the instruments.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120726, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a book, and we are the readers.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120727, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a bird, and the body is the cage.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120728, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to love.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120729, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a dream, and we are the dreamers.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120730, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a river, and the body is the bank.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120731, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to forgive.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120732, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a labyrinth, and we are the travelers.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120733, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to doubt.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120734, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a garden, and the body is the fence.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120735, "lang": "en", "text": "The art of living is to know how to hope.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120736, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a puzzle, and we are the pieces.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120737, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a journey, and the body is the vehicle.", "author": "Porphyry", "author_slug": "porphyry", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 301}
{"id": 120738, "lang": "en", "text": "The Good is the cause of all things.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120739, "lang": "en", "text": "The One is the source of all reality.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120740, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the image of the One.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120741, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the bond between the intelligible and the sensible worlds.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120742, "lang": "en", "text": "The virtues are the harmonies of the soul.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120743, "lang": "en", "text": "The evil is the privation of the good.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120744, "lang": "en", "text": "The beautiful is the splendor of the true.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120745, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the king of his own soul.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120746, "lang": "en", "text": "The fool is the slave of his passions.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120747, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the lover of wisdom.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120748, "lang": "en", "text": "The sophist is the lover of reputation.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120749, "lang": "en", "text": "The dialectic is the path to the first principles.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120750, "lang": "en", "text": "The first principle is the cause of all things.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120762, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the form of forms.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120764, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy man is the one who lives according to reason.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120765, "lang": "en", "text": "The unhappy man is the one who lives according to his passions.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120766, "lang": "en", "text": "The just man is the one who gives to each what is due.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120767, "lang": "en", "text": "The unjust man is the one who takes what is not due.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120768, "lang": "en", "text": "The brave man is the one who faces danger for the sake of the good.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120770, "lang": "en", "text": "The temperate man is the one who desires only what is fitting.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120771, "lang": "en", "text": "The intemperate man is the one who desires everything.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120772, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the one who knows what he does not know.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120774, "lang": "en", "text": "The good man is the one who loves the truth.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120775, "lang": "en", "text": "The bad man is the one who loves falsehood.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120776, "lang": "en", "text": "The happy life is the life according to nature.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120777, "lang": "en", "text": "The unhappy life is the life against nature.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120778, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is immortal because it is incorporeal.", "author": "Proclus", "author_slug": "proclus", "school": "neoplatonism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 485}
{"id": 120779, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time, through seeking, they are revealed to us.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120780, "lang": "en", "text": "The clearest proof that wisdom is not taught is this: if it were a teachable thing, it would have been acquired by this time by human beings.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120782, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not born, nor do they die. They do not have clothing of their own, nor do they have voice or language.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120783, "lang": "en", "text": "One god is god of all, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in form nor in thought.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120787, "lang": "en", "text": "The sun is new each day, and each day it is born.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120789, "lang": "en", "text": "The most noble thing is truth, and the most valuable is wisdom.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120790, "lang": "en", "text": "The best thing for mortals is to restrain their hands from doing wrong.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120791, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not responsible for all the good and bad things that happen to men.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120793, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not like men in their form or their thoughts.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120796, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to understand the divine is through contemplation and reflection.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120797, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are eternal and unchanging.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120799, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not concerned with the affairs of men.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120800, "lang": "en", "text": "The best way to understand the world is through observation and experience.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120801, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods are not like men in their knowledge or their power.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120803, "lang": "en", "text": "The clear truth no man has seen: nor will there ever be a man who knows about the gods and about all the things I speak of.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120804, "lang": "en", "text": "The one god of all, among gods and men, is not like mortals in body or in thought.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120805, "lang": "en", "text": "The strongest of all is god, for if he were not, he would not be the king of all.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120807, "lang": "en", "text": "The sun has been examined, and it did not before know the path it was to take, so now it has found it out, and the moon likewise.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120808, "lang": "en", "text": "All things come from earth, and into earth all things return.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120809, "lang": "en", "text": "The sea is the source of water, and the source of wind; for wind is nothing but the moving of air, and this is born of the earth.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120810, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest virtue is to keep the heart from excess.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120811, "lang": "en", "text": "The gods have not revealed all things to men from the beginning, but by seeking they learn and know things better.", "author": "Xenophanes", "author_slug": "xenophanes", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -478}
{"id": 120812, "lang": "en", "text": "All things together are both infinite and imperishable.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120813, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is infinite and self-ruling.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120815, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind has every kind of knowledge.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120816, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is unsleeping.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120818, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is impartial and independent.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120819, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is mixed with nothing.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120820, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the fairest of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120821, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the subtlest of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120822, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the strongest of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120837, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the most pure of all things and the most immortal.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120838, "lang": "en", "text": "All things are mixed with one another.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120839, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing else is infinite except Mind.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120840, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is unsituated, unmixed with anything, and alone by itself.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120841, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the finest of all things and the purest.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120842, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind has dominion over all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120844, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the ruler of the revolution of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120845, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the cause of the mixture and separation of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120851, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the cause of the standing still of all things.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120853, "lang": "en", "text": "Mind is the cause of the coming into being of light and darkness.", "author": "Anaxagoras", "author_slug": "anaxagoras", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -428}
{"id": 120860, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing comes to be or perishes, but all things are mixed together and separate, and become again through one another.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120861, "lang": "en", "text": "For in truth there is nothing but this: the whole I tell you, and how it is, and how it will be, and that there is no birth of anything, and no end.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120862, "lang": "en", "text": "For as the mixture of all things and the separation of all things are the same, and birth is the same as perishing.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120863, "lang": "en", "text": "For the way of all things is to come into being through one another, and to perish through one another.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120864, "lang": "en", "text": "For the sun is not new each day, but is as it was from the beginning.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120866, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing comes to be or passes away, but by mixing, things become, and by separation they are destroyed.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120868, "lang": "en", "text": "All things have thought, and the whole world is one.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120869, "lang": "en", "text": "Love is a cosmic principle of unity and attraction.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120870, "lang": "en", "text": "Strife is a cosmic principle of separation and destruction.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120871, "lang": "en", "text": "The four roots of all things are Goddess-born: Zeus, Hera, Aidoneus, and Nestis.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120872, "lang": "en", "text": "All things are full of soul, both the great and the small.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120873, "lang": "en", "text": "The pure will never be polluted, nor the polluted be pure.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120874, "lang": "en", "text": "The eye is the brightest of all organs, but it is useless if it is not bathed in light.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120875, "lang": "en", "text": "The tongue is the wisest of all organs, but it is useless if it does not speak the truth.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120876, "lang": "en", "text": "The ear is the most musical of all organs, but it is useless if it does not hear the harmony of the spheres.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120885, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the most precious of all things, but it is useless if it is not sought with all one's heart.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120886, "lang": "en", "text": "The good is the most noble of all things, but it is useless if it is not practiced with all one's might.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120887, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is the most happy of all men, but he is useless if he does not share his wisdom with others.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120888, "lang": "en", "text": "The fool is the most miserable of all men, but he is useless if he does not learn from his mistakes.", "author": "Empedocles", "author_slug": "empedocles", "school": "preSocratic", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -430}
{"id": 120890, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who, in the midst of business and confusion, is still and calm at heart.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120891, "lang": "en", "text": "The good or happy life is produced by noble actions; it is not by chance.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120892, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of man is action, and not mere speculation.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120894, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the self-moving pneuma, or vital spirit.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120898, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is free, for he is not subject to external circumstances.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120899, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of life is happiness, and happiness is achieved by living virtuously.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120900, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always prepared, for he has provided himself with everything he needs.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120901, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always at ease, for he is never disturbed by external circumstances.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120905, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is always cheerful, for he is never out of tune with Nature.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120906, "lang": "en", "text": "The end of life is to live in accordance with reason, and the perfection of human nature is to live virtuously.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120908, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the principle of sensation, and the body is the instrument of sensation.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120912, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is a unity, a single whole, which is governed by a single law.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120919, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a blend of fire and air.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120922, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a harmony of the body.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120927, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a blend of the four elements.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120930, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a body that is capable of movement and sensation.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120932, "lang": "en", "text": "The good is what is useful for the soul, the bad is what is harmful to the soul.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120933, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a harmony of the elements.", "author": "Chrysippus", "author_slug": "chrysippus", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -208}
{"id": 120936, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe itself is God.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120937, "lang": "en", "text": "God is a fire that measures a cubit in height and breadth.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120938, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a god, a living being, the single one who is truly god and lord of many gods.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120939, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not uncreated and imperishable, but it is eternal, indestructible, uncreated, and everlasting.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120941, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120942, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a single entity, comprehending all things within itself.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120944, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a living being, for it is self-sufficient and self-sustaining.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120948, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a living being, for it is the most excellent of all existing things.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120950, "lang": "en", "text": "God is a fire that measures out and contains all things.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120951, "lang": "en", "text": "The world-order is a reality, and not a mere name.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120953, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is not a disorderly aggregation and a mere heap of things.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120954, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not the work of a creator who is transcendent.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120955, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not the product of a creator who is separate from it.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120956, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not uncreated and ungoverned by providence.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120957, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of mind.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120958, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of reason.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120959, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of design.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120960, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of order.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120961, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of beauty.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120962, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of goodness.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120963, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of truth.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120964, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of justice.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120965, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of providence.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120966, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of fate.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120967, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of necessity.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120968, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of destiny.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120969, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of purpose.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120970, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of meaning.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120971, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of value.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120972, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of significance.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120973, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is not devoid of divinity.", "author": "Cleanthes", "author_slug": "cleanthes", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -232}
{"id": 120974, "lang": "en", "text": "Well-being is realized by small steps and not by leaps and bounds.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120975, "lang": "en", "text": "The foundation of all inquiry is wonder.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120976, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature does nothing in vain.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120977, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120978, "lang": "en", "text": "No one is rich whose virtual wealth can be counted.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120979, "lang": "en", "text": "The only way to comprehend what lies in front of you is to let go of what lies behind.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120980, "lang": "en", "text": "Life which is not examined is not worth living.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120981, "lang": "en", "text": "We are more likely to act ourselves into a new way of thinking than to think ourselves into a new way of acting.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120982, "lang": "en", "text": "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120983, "lang": "en", "text": "Well-being is realized by virtue, circumstance does not affect it at all.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120985, "lang": "en", "text": "Virtue is nothing else than the state of a soul in harmony.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120986, "lang": "en", "text": "No one is free who is not master of himself.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "dream", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120988, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the hallmark of the cultivated man that he can live in any society; the narrow-souled man, on the other hand, can live only in some.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120989, "lang": "en", "text": "The nature of an obstacle is to be overcome. What's in the way becomes the way.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120990, "lang": "en", "text": "If thou wishest to be a philosopher, learn first to die.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120991, "lang": "en", "text": "We should every night retire to bed with the reflection that we have lived another day in innocence and justice.", "author": "Zeno of Citium", "author_slug": "zeno-of-citium", "school": "stoicism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -263}
{"id": 120992, "lang": "en", "text": "The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It does not lean forward or backward in its responses.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 120993, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is never elated, never depressed; he is never carried away by the passing mood.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 120994, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who gives the right answers, but the one who poses the right questions.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 120996, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who knows much, but the one who loves much.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 120997, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who has all the answers, but the one who knows where to find them.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 120999, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never afraid, but the one who knows how to conquer fear.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121000, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never angry, but the one who knows how to control anger.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121001, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never sad, but the one who knows how to overcome sadness.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121002, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never tired, but the one who knows how to rest.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121006, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in want, but the one who knows how to live without.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121007, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in pain, but the one who knows how to endure.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121008, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in danger, but the one who knows how to face danger.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121009, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in doubt, but the one who knows how to seek the truth.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121010, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in error, but the one who knows how to correct his errors.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121011, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not the one who is never in the dark, but the one who knows how to find the light.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121013, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is impermanent, and so is life. To understand this is to be enlightened.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121014, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not lay up his own ideas. He is from whom the people learn. He who is self-displaying in his learning cannot enlighten the people.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121015, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage has no fixed ideas. He is the mirror of the people.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121016, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not hoard. The more he gives to others, the more he has himself.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121017, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be great, and therefore he is great.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121018, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not confined by his knowledge. He is open to all things.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121019, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be first. He is content to be last.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121020, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be rich. He is content with what he has.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121021, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be famous. He is content to be unknown.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121022, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be praised. He is content to be blamed.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121023, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be loved. He is content to be hated.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121027, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be perfect. He is content to be imperfect.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121028, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be enlightened. He is content to be ignorant.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121029, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be free. He is content to be bound.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121030, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be powerful. He is content to be powerless.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121031, "lang": "en", "text": "The sage does not seek to be wise. He is content to be a fool.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121032, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not seek to be great. He is content to be small.", "author": "Zhuangzi", "author_slug": "zhuangzi", "school": "taoism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -286}
{"id": 121033, "lang": "en", "text": "Heaven cannot be changed by man, but man can harmonize with Heaven.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121036, "lang": "en", "text": "To take what is given by nature and to perfect it through education is the way of man.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121037, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman uses his ears and eyes as filters; he does not simply absorb everything he hears and sees.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121039, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is naturally good, but one who works hard to be good.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121040, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is like a wheelwright, constantly shaping and reshaping himself.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121041, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with knowledge, but one who seeks it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121042, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with virtue, but one who cultivates it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121043, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with courage, but one who develops it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121044, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with wisdom, but one who acquires it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121045, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with benevolence, but one who practices it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121046, "lang": "en", "text": "The gentleman is not one who is born with righteousness, but one who upholds it.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121057, "lang": "en", "text": "Heaven cannot be relied upon to send down blessings, one must rely upon one's own diligent efforts.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "success", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121058, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble man does not wait until he is in difficulties before he thinks about what to do.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121069, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble man does not use his knowledge to understand what is right in front of him, but uses his heart to understand what is right.", "author": "Xunzi", "author_slug": "xunzi", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -230}
{"id": 121080, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121081, "lang": "en", "text": "The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121083, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is like the sky, and thoughts are like the clouds.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121084, "lang": "en", "text": "The way of learning is none other than to seek the lost mind.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121088, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all good and evil.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121089, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all knowledge.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121090, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all action.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121091, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all virtue.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121093, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all happiness.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121094, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all truth.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121097, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all ignorance.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121098, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all wisdom.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121100, "lang": "en", "text": "Knowledge is the beginning of all things.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121101, "lang": "en", "text": "To put the world in order, we must first put the mind in order.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121103, "lang": "en", "text": "When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see a not-so-good person, reflect on your own self.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121104, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is not different from nature.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121105, "lang": "en", "text": "To forget the self is to be enlightened by the Tao.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121107, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the substance of the universe.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121108, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the foundation of all things.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121109, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all beauty.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121110, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all goodness.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121111, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind is the source of all existence.", "author": "Wang Yangming", "author_slug": "wang-yangming", "school": "confucianism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1529}
{"id": 121112, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is always one, and it cannot be many.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121113, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is not the one who knows, but the one who loves knowledge.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121114, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only one page.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121115, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is not he who knows most, but he who loves most.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121117, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the most noble part of the human soul.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121118, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to know the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121119, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is eternal and has no beginning.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121120, "lang": "en", "text": "The universe is governed by necessity and not by chance.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121131, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the only part of the soul that is immortal and eternal.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121132, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be free from passions and desires in order to seek the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121133, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is not a matter of opinion but of reason and evidence.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121134, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher must be a lover of wisdom and truth and must seek them with all his might.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121135, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a single, unified whole and is governed by the laws of nature.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121136, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the form of the body and is not separate from it, and the intellect is the highest part of the soul and is capable of knowing the truth.", "author": "Averroes", "author_slug": "averroes", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "confidence", "author_death_year": 1198}
{"id": 121137, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no greater impediment to the progress of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121138, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth of things is the truth of their essences.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121140, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a self-aware substance.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121142, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the physician of the soul.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121143, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the correspondence of the intellect with things.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121144, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a mirror of the soul.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121145, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a reflection of the divine.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121146, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the ultimate good.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121147, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all knowledge.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121149, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the seeker of truth.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121150, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the ultimate reality.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121151, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all being.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121153, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the servant of truth.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121154, "lang": "en", "text": "The truth is the ultimate perfection.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121155, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all perfection.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121156, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a manifestation of the divine goodness.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121158, "lang": "en", "text": "The first thing which you have to do is to know that you are alive.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121159, "lang": "en", "text": "The noble soul attracts the good things of the world, whether it wills them or not.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121160, "lang": "en", "text": "The excellence of the happy man does not consist in the fact that he possesses happiness, but in the fact that he possesses the sources of happiness.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "positive", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121161, "lang": "en", "text": "The more you delve into the mysteries of the universe, the more you realize the insignificance of human existence.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121162, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man does not expose himself to chance; he does not demand that fortune should be kind, but that he should make the best of whatever fortune hands out to him.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121164, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is not content till it knows the cause of things.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121165, "lang": "en", "text": "The true philosopher is distinguished from the false by the readiness with which he acknowledges himself to be in the wrong.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121166, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest aim of the philosopher is to know the truth of things.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121167, "lang": "en", "text": "The true philosopher is always seeking, never satisfied with what he has found.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121168, "lang": "en", "text": "The essence of the soul is to be a substance in which the faculty of knowledge is inherent.", "author": "Avicenna", "author_slug": "avicenna", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1037}
{"id": 121169, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to understand the ultimate causes of things.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121170, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who seeks to know the truth and to live according to it.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121172, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the most divine part of the human soul.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121173, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to attain happiness through the pursuit of wisdom.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121175, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is immortal and eternal, and it is the source of all life and movement.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121176, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to make people better and happier.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121177, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who knows the truth and teaches it to others.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121178, "lang": "en", "text": "The first principle of philosophy is to know that we know nothing.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121181, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who is never satisfied with what he knows.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121182, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who is always questioning.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121187, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who is always striving for perfection.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121190, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who is always seeking to make the world a better place.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121196, "lang": "en", "text": "The philosopher is the one who is always seeking to make people more compassionate.", "author": "Al-Farabi", "author_slug": "al-farabi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 951}
{"id": 121199, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing happens in the sublunar world that is not in accordance with what is above the sphere of the moon.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121201, "lang": "en", "text": "The excellence of knowledge is that it enables us to distinguish between the true and the false.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121202, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is a substance in itself and not an accident.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121203, "lang": "en", "text": "The happiness of man lies in the knowledge of the truth.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121205, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is incorporeal and immortal.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121208, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the perfection of the soul.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121211, "lang": "en", "text": "The first principle of existence is the cause of all things.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121212, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is a single, unified whole, and all things in it are interconnected.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121213, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the highest part of the soul and is immortal.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121214, "lang": "en", "text": "The happiness of man is to know the truth about the world and himself.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121215, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows the truth about the first principle of existence.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121216, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing happens in the sublunar world that does not have a cause.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121217, "lang": "en", "text": "The excellence of knowledge is that it gives us the power not only to believe, but to know.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121219, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the most noble part of the soul.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121220, "lang": "en", "text": "The existence of the world is due to the existence of God.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121221, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is immortal and will continue to exist after the death of the body.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121222, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all movement and change in the world.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121224, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all life and growth in the world.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121227, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul is the source of all beauty and harmony in the world.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121228, "lang": "en", "text": "The intellect is the only part of the soul that is capable of knowing the ultimate reality.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121229, "lang": "en", "text": "The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to attain knowledge of the divine essence.", "author": "Al-Kindi", "author_slug": "al-kindi", "school": "islamicPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 870}
{"id": 121230, "lang": "en", "text": "The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121232, "lang": "en", "text": "The world is governed by a combination of chance, free will, and divine providence.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121233, "lang": "en", "text": "The goal of life is knowledge. The organ of knowledge is reason.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121234, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do so with his pen.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121236, "lang": "en", "text": "The more a person increases in wisdom and knowledge, the more he understands his own ignorance.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121237, "lang": "en", "text": "The highest form of wisdom is kindness.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121238, "lang": "en", "text": "The true essence of man is not to be found in what he attains, but in what he aspires to.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121241, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest wisdom is to have a flexible mind and a strong will.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121242, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows, the more one realizes the limitations of one's knowledge.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121243, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of life is to seek truth and live according to it.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121244, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121245, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to adapt to changing circumstances.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121246, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows, the more one realizes the complexity of the world.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121248, "lang": "en", "text": "The more one knows, the more one realizes the interconnectedness of all things.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121249, "lang": "en", "text": "The purpose of philosophy is to help us live a good life.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 121251, "lang": "en", "text": "The wise man is he who knows how to balance reason and emotion.", "author": "Moses Maimonides", "author_slug": "moses-maimonides", "school": "scholasticism", "category": "parenting", "author_death_year": 1204}
{"id": 200000, "lang": "en", "text": "Hatred is never appeased by hatred. Hatred is appeased by love alone. This is an eternal law.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200001, "lang": "en", "text": "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200002, "lang": "en", "text": "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200003, "lang": "en", "text": "Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200004, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200005, "lang": "en", "text": "Be a light unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself, and not in anything outside.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 200006, "lang": "en", "text": "Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200007, "lang": "en", "text": "When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200008, "lang": "en", "text": "Practice and detachment are the means to still the movements of the mind.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200009, "lang": "en", "text": "The seer is the pure seeing itself; though pure, it appears to see through the colour of the mind.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200010, "lang": "en", "text": "The posture should be steady and comfortable.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200011, "lang": "en", "text": "Heyam dukham anagatam — the suffering that has not yet come can be avoided.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 200012, "lang": "en", "text": "Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 200013, "lang": "en", "text": "Silence is the highest teaching. The teacher's silence is the loudest upadesha.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 200014, "lang": "en", "text": "Happiness is your own nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 200015, "lang": "en", "text": "When the mind goes out, it is the world; when it turns inward, it is the Self.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 200016, "lang": "en", "text": "The Self is here and now; it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 200017, "lang": "en", "text": "Ask yourself: Who am I? — and let the question turn back upon the questioner. There the search ends.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 300000, "lang": "en", "text": "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 300007, "lang": "en", "text": "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.", "author": "Henri Bergson", "author_slug": "bergson", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1941}
{"id": 300008, "lang": "en", "text": "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 300009, "lang": "en", "text": "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 300010, "lang": "en", "text": "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 300011, "lang": "en", "text": "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 300012, "lang": "en", "text": "Time spent with cats is never wasted.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 300036, "lang": "en", "text": "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 300037, "lang": "en", "text": "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 300038, "lang": "en", "text": "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 300039, "lang": "en", "text": "Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 300040, "lang": "en", "text": "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 300041, "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300042, "lang": "en", "text": "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300043, "lang": "en", "text": "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300044, "lang": "en", "text": "A goal without a plan is just a wish.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300045, "lang": "en", "text": "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300046, "lang": "en", "text": "One cannot dream of changing the world if one does not first change oneself.", "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry", "author_slug": "antoinedesaint-exupery", "school": "humanism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1944}
{"id": 300084, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 300085, "lang": "en", "text": "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 300086, "lang": "en", "text": "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.", "author": "Buddha", "author_slug": "buddha", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -483}
{"id": 300087, "lang": "en", "text": "By contemplating an object that has not yet manifested, the seer reaches the cause of its arising.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 300088, "lang": "en", "text": "The mind becomes pure as a lake when troubled waters are stilled.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 300089, "lang": "en", "text": "As thoughts arise, they should be neither encouraged nor pushed away — simply observed.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 300090, "lang": "en", "text": "With practice and detachment, the modifications of the mind cease.", "author": "Patanjali", "author_slug": "patanjali", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": -150}
{"id": 300091, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no greater mystery than this — that being the Reality, we seek to gain reality.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 300092, "lang": "en", "text": "Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true Self is like trying to cover the whole world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 300093, "lang": "en", "text": "No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 300094, "lang": "en", "text": "Just be — and the storm of thoughts will pass.", "author": "Ramana Maharshi", "author_slug": "ramana-maharshi", "school": "indianMysticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1950}
{"id": 350000, "lang": "en", "text": "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 350001, "lang": "en", "text": "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 350002, "lang": "en", "text": "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.", "author": "Sigmund Freud", "author_slug": "sigmundfreud", "school": "psychoanalysis", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1939}
{"id": 350006, "lang": "en", "text": "I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one should appear like a fool and be wise.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 350007, "lang": "en", "text": "To love to read is to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 350008, "lang": "en", "text": "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favours for big ones.", "author": "Montesquieu", "author_slug": "montesquieu", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1755}
{"id": 350012, "lang": "en", "text": "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 350013, "lang": "en", "text": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 350014, "lang": "en", "text": "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "author_slug": "khalilgibran", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1931}
{"id": 350015, "lang": "en", "text": "I can resist anything except temptation.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 350016, "lang": "en", "text": "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "author_slug": "oscarwilde", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1900}
{"id": 350020, "lang": "en", "text": "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400000, "lang": "en", "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400001, "lang": "en", "text": "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love — that is the soul of genius.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400002, "lang": "en", "text": "It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has been easy for me.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400003, "lang": "en", "text": "The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400004, "lang": "en", "text": "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400005, "lang": "en", "text": "I never lie down at night without reflecting that — young as I am — I may not live to see another day.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400006, "lang": "en", "text": "When I am completely myself, entirely alone, my ideas flow best and most abundantly.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400007, "lang": "en", "text": "Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400008, "lang": "en", "text": "To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400009, "lang": "en", "text": "I write as a sow piddles — small, large, and constant.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "author_slug": "mozart", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1791}
{"id": 400010, "lang": "en", "text": "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you — you'll be a man, my son.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400011, "lang": "en", "text": "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400012, "lang": "en", "text": "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400013, "lang": "en", "text": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400014, "lang": "en", "text": "I keep six honest serving-men: they taught me all I knew; their names are What and Why and When, and How and Where and Who.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400015, "lang": "en", "text": "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400016, "lang": "en", "text": "Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400017, "lang": "en", "text": "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400018, "lang": "en", "text": "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400019, "lang": "en", "text": "All the people like us are 'we,' and everyone else is 'they.'", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "author_slug": "rudyardkipling", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1936}
{"id": 400020, "lang": "en", "text": "I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400021, "lang": "en", "text": "Virtue can only flourish among equals.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400022, "lang": "en", "text": "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400023, "lang": "en", "text": "The beginning is always today.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400024, "lang": "en", "text": "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400025, "lang": "en", "text": "I will not live with a man whom I cannot esteem.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400026, "lang": "en", "text": "I love most people best when they are in adversity, for pity is one of my prevailing passions.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400027, "lang": "en", "text": "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400028, "lang": "en", "text": "Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle.", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400029, "lang": "en", "text": "How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?", "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "author_slug": "wollstonecraft", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1797}
{"id": 400030, "lang": "en", "text": "Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400031, "lang": "en", "text": "Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400032, "lang": "en", "text": "The exercise of natural rights of women has no limits other than the perpetual tyranny of men.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400033, "lang": "en", "text": "Woman, wake up; the tocsin of reason is being heard throughout the whole universe; discover your rights.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400034, "lang": "en", "text": "I have only one idea: to deliver my country.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400035, "lang": "en", "text": "Marriage is the tomb of trust and love.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400036, "lang": "en", "text": "All citizens, men and women, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400037, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty and justice consist in restoring all that belongs to others.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400038, "lang": "en", "text": "Whatever the barriers set against you, it is in your power to free yourselves.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400039, "lang": "en", "text": "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious rights of woman.", "author": "Olympe de Gouges", "author_slug": "olympe-de-gouges", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1793}
{"id": 400040, "lang": "en", "text": "If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400041, "lang": "en", "text": "The custom of the world has put women, generally speaking, into a state of subjection.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "equality", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400042, "lang": "en", "text": "A woman should know how to be silent — and how to break that silence when truth requires.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400043, "lang": "en", "text": "Women, like men, were made in the image of God, and they have souls and reason.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400044, "lang": "en", "text": "She who would be a wise woman must first be a woman who knows herself.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400045, "lang": "en", "text": "It is not for want of capacity but of opportunity that women's minds remain uncultivated.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400046, "lang": "en", "text": "The retirement we propose is not a banishment from society, but a withdrawal for the better culture of the mind.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400047, "lang": "en", "text": "To know how little we know is the beginning of all wisdom.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400048, "lang": "en", "text": "We can know nothing of the things we have not learned.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "women", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 400049, "lang": "en", "text": "If marriage is a state of cooperation, both must learn equally.", "author": "Mary Astell", "author_slug": "astell", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1731}
{"id": 410000, "lang": "en", "text": "I carry my conscience as one carries a stone.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410001, "lang": "en", "text": "I am nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410002, "lang": "en", "text": "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410003, "lang": "en", "text": "Everything is worth it if the soul is not small.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410004, "lang": "en", "text": "To navigate is necessary; to live is not.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410005, "lang": "en", "text": "My God, my God, who am I watching? How many am I? Who is I? What is this gap between me and myself?", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410006, "lang": "en", "text": "First, distinguish what dreams are from what reality is.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410007, "lang": "en", "text": "Stones in the path? I keep them all. One day I'll build a castle.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410008, "lang": "en", "text": "I'm the size of what I see, not the size of my height.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410009, "lang": "en", "text": "Sometimes I hear the wind blow, and I feel that just for hearing the wind blow it was worth being born.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "author_slug": "fernando-pessoa", "school": "existentialism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1935}
{"id": 410030, "lang": "en", "text": "Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410031, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body by your spirit.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410032, "lang": "en", "text": "From one thing, know ten thousand things.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410033, "lang": "en", "text": "The way is in training.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410034, "lang": "en", "text": "The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410035, "lang": "en", "text": "Accept everything just the way it is.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410036, "lang": "en", "text": "You can only fight the way you practice.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410037, "lang": "en", "text": "Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410038, "lang": "en", "text": "There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410039, "lang": "en", "text": "If you wish to control others, you must first control yourself.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "author_slug": "miyamoto-musashi", "school": "mahayanaBuddhism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410060, "lang": "en", "text": "He who shows the way to peace deserves the praise of all.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410061, "lang": "en", "text": "The law of nature is so unchangeable that it cannot be altered even by God himself.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410062, "lang": "en", "text": "A state which fights for the just cause cannot lose, even if it loses the war.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410063, "lang": "en", "text": "Necessity has no law.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410064, "lang": "en", "text": "I have endeavoured to defend the cause of justice with all the powers of my mind.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410065, "lang": "en", "text": "The sea is the common property of all.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410066, "lang": "en", "text": "Even when no government exists, men are bound to one another by the law of nature.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410067, "lang": "en", "text": "Errors of the past should teach the future to be cautious.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410068, "lang": "en", "text": "A man's home is his castle and his fortress.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410069, "lang": "en", "text": "Justice is not the will of the stronger, but the harmony of equals.", "author": "Hugo Grotius", "author_slug": "grotius", "school": "rationalism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1645}
{"id": 410070, "lang": "en", "text": "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "leadership", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410071, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty is the prevention of control by others.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410072, "lang": "en", "text": "The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410073, "lang": "en", "text": "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410074, "lang": "en", "text": "History is not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410075, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410076, "lang": "en", "text": "Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410077, "lang": "en", "text": "Great men are almost always bad men.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410078, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 410079, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.", "author": "Lord Acton", "author_slug": "acton", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1902}
{"id": 420000, "lang": "en", "text": "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420001, "lang": "en", "text": "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420002, "lang": "en", "text": "All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420003, "lang": "en", "text": "I hate the indifferent. I believe that to live means taking sides.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420004, "lang": "en", "text": "Indifference is the dead weight of history.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420005, "lang": "en", "text": "Educate yourselves, because we will need all our intelligence.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420006, "lang": "en", "text": "To tell the truth is revolutionary.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420007, "lang": "en", "text": "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420008, "lang": "en", "text": "I find that there is something pure and beautiful in being able to see the world without illusions.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 420009, "lang": "en", "text": "History teaches, but it has no pupils.", "author": "Antonio Gramsci", "author_slug": "gramsci", "school": "liquidModernity", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1937}
{"id": 430000, "lang": "en", "text": "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430001, "lang": "en", "text": "The progress of the human mind is unlimited.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430002, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth, justice, and reason will at length prevail.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430003, "lang": "en", "text": "Every law that violates the rights of men is essentially unjust and tyrannical.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430004, "lang": "en", "text": "Either no one of mankind has rights, or all have the same.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430005, "lang": "en", "text": "Have we not extended the rights of citizens to a class of human beings who had been excluded?", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430006, "lang": "en", "text": "Nature has joined the truth, the happiness, and the virtue of all men.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430007, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty is more efficacious than authority for the achievement of human progress.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430008, "lang": "en", "text": "Public education ought to be the first duty of the state.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430009, "lang": "en", "text": "Reason, tolerance, humanity must triumph.", "author": "Marquis de Condorcet", "author_slug": "condorcet", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430010, "lang": "en", "text": "It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430011, "lang": "en", "text": "Punishments should be public, prompt, necessary, the least possible in the given circumstances, proportional to the crime, dictated by the law.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430012, "lang": "en", "text": "Every act of authority of one man over another, for which there is not an absolute necessity, is tyrannical.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430013, "lang": "en", "text": "Laws are the conditions under which men, naturally independent, united themselves in society.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430014, "lang": "en", "text": "Happy is the nation without a history.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430015, "lang": "en", "text": "The greatest happiness shared by the greatest number.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430016, "lang": "en", "text": "There are countries and times in which men can only be governed by the fear of punishment.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430017, "lang": "en", "text": "Death is a spectacle which excites for a moment, but afterward becomes an object of compassion mingled with disdain.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430018, "lang": "en", "text": "Do you want to prevent crimes? See to it that the laws are clear and simple.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430019, "lang": "en", "text": "The certainty of a punishment, even if moderate, will always make a stronger impression than the fear of one more severe.", "author": "Cesare Beccaria", "author_slug": "beccaria", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1794}
{"id": 430020, "lang": "en", "text": "Toleration is the very essence of the gospel.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430021, "lang": "en", "text": "An erring conscience deserves as much respect as a true conscience.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430022, "lang": "en", "text": "All sects strut about as if they alone possessed the truth.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430023, "lang": "en", "text": "Compelling men to be of one faith is not the way to truth, but to hypocrisy.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430024, "lang": "en", "text": "Errors are no less inherent in our nature than passions and prejudices.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430025, "lang": "en", "text": "A society made up entirely of atheists could be just and virtuous.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430026, "lang": "en", "text": "It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century is therefore true.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430027, "lang": "en", "text": "The conscience is the voice of reason in a man.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430028, "lang": "en", "text": "He that holds the truth without charity is a tyrant of consciences.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430029, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the property of fools to despise what they do not understand.", "author": "Pierre Bayle", "author_slug": "bayle", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1706}
{"id": 430030, "lang": "en", "text": "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430031, "lang": "en", "text": "It is the people themselves who allow themselves, or rather have themselves enslaved.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430032, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom is natural. It is the same in every man.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430033, "lang": "en", "text": "The fierce one and the weak one alike love liberty.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430034, "lang": "en", "text": "Yet ye nourish his pleasures and abandon to him the world for his marketplace.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430035, "lang": "en", "text": "Tyrants always seek to weaken those they wish to dominate.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430036, "lang": "en", "text": "Cease to support him, and you shall behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430037, "lang": "en", "text": "The tyrant becomes formidable only because the people fear him.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430038, "lang": "en", "text": "Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430039, "lang": "en", "text": "Custom is the first reason for voluntary servitude.", "author": "Étienne de La Boétie", "author_slug": "la-boetie", "school": "humanism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1563}
{"id": 430040, "lang": "en", "text": "Property is theft.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430041, "lang": "en", "text": "To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430042, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430043, "lang": "en", "text": "Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430044, "lang": "en", "text": "The producer, in his free industry, ought to receive the full value of his work.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430045, "lang": "en", "text": "Universal suffrage is the counter-revolution.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430046, "lang": "en", "text": "What is the capitalist? Everything. What should he be? Nothing.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430047, "lang": "en", "text": "Anarchy is order; government is civil war.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430048, "lang": "en", "text": "Justice is the central star which governs societies.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430049, "lang": "en", "text": "Communism is oppression and slavery.", "author": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "author_slug": "proudhon", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1865}
{"id": 430050, "lang": "en", "text": "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430051, "lang": "en", "text": "The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430052, "lang": "en", "text": "If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430053, "lang": "en", "text": "I am free because all those around me are equally free.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430054, "lang": "en", "text": "We can become free only when those around us are also free.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430055, "lang": "en", "text": "Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430056, "lang": "en", "text": "The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430057, "lang": "en", "text": "The unbeatable enemy of liberty is the state.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430058, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty cannot exist without equality, and equality cannot exist without liberty.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430059, "lang": "en", "text": "People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery.", "author": "Mikhail Bakunin", "author_slug": "bakunin", "school": "politicalPhilosophy", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1876}
{"id": 430060, "lang": "en", "text": "Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice is no part of his very being.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430061, "lang": "en", "text": "The true end of man is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430062, "lang": "en", "text": "Education must develop in each individual the perfection of which he is susceptible.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430063, "lang": "en", "text": "Language is the formative organ of thought.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430064, "lang": "en", "text": "Each language is a distinctive way of seeing the world.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430065, "lang": "en", "text": "Genuine freedom presupposes that man does not surrender to circumstances.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430066, "lang": "en", "text": "Only that which we have inwardly can we see outwardly.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430067, "lang": "en", "text": "The state has no right to interfere with the moral life of its citizens beyond what is strictly necessary.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430068, "lang": "en", "text": "Only freedom permits the manifold development of human energies.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430069, "lang": "en", "text": "The individual is more than what the state can demand of him.", "author": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "author_slug": "humboldt", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1835}
{"id": 430080, "lang": "en", "text": "Beauty is the smile of the truth when it sees its own image in a perfect mirror.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430081, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no greater misery than to be born only to die.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430082, "lang": "en", "text": "To love is to flee from oneself.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430083, "lang": "en", "text": "Truth, however bitter, is always preferable to the most gilded lie.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430084, "lang": "en", "text": "I want only to know who I am — what I was, what I am, and what I shall be.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430085, "lang": "en", "text": "The soul has a tide, and there is an ebb and flow of the spirit as of the sea.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430086, "lang": "en", "text": "Suffering is the great companion of the spirit that thinks.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430087, "lang": "en", "text": "Beautiful is not what dazzles, but what endures.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430088, "lang": "en", "text": "Sleep, the longed-for sleep — to dream nothing, to feel nothing, to be nothing.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430089, "lang": "en", "text": "All that is born grows; all that grows decays; all that decays dies. But within the dying is also the dawn.", "author": "Antero de Quental", "author_slug": "antero-quental", "school": "aestheticism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1891}
{"id": 430110, "lang": "en", "text": "Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430111, "lang": "en", "text": "When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430112, "lang": "en", "text": "Empathy is the act in which one experiences the experience of another.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430113, "lang": "en", "text": "The world doesn't need what women have; it needs what women are.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430114, "lang": "en", "text": "There is no profession that cannot be exercised by a woman.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430115, "lang": "en", "text": "Whoever has lived the dark night will accept the day with deeper gratitude.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430116, "lang": "en", "text": "Whoever lets herself be guided by truth and love is on the right path.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430117, "lang": "en", "text": "One cannot desire freedom from the cross when one is especially chosen for it.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430118, "lang": "en", "text": "The deeper a soul is bound to God, the more completely surrendered to grace, the simpler her life.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 430119, "lang": "en", "text": "Each child is unique and irreplaceable, like a star.", "author": "Edith Stein", "author_slug": "stein", "school": "humanism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1942}
{"id": 440000, "lang": "en", "text": "All true history is contemporary history.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440001, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty alone procures perfection.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440002, "lang": "en", "text": "Art is vision, not action.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440003, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty is the moral ideal of humanity.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440004, "lang": "en", "text": "We cannot but call ourselves Christians.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440005, "lang": "en", "text": "Nothing dies that has not been alive.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440006, "lang": "en", "text": "History is the story of liberty.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440007, "lang": "en", "text": "Every man finds his moral law within himself.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440008, "lang": "en", "text": "To think is to criticize.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 440009, "lang": "en", "text": "Poetry is not the language of feeling, but the feeling of language.", "author": "Benedetto Croce", "author_slug": "croce", "school": "germanIdealism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1952}
{"id": 450002, "lang": "en", "text": "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450003, "lang": "en", "text": "Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that — it lights the whole sky.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450004, "lang": "en", "text": "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would rather see you in better conditions.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450005, "lang": "en", "text": "Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450006, "lang": "en", "text": "How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450007, "lang": "en", "text": "I am happy even before I have a reason. I am full of light even before the sky can possibly be.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450008, "lang": "en", "text": "Words are the very wings with which the soul flies.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450009, "lang": "en", "text": "Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450010, "lang": "en", "text": "There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, others are far too deep for that.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450011, "lang": "en", "text": "What we speak becomes the house we live in.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 450012, "lang": "en", "text": "The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.", "author": "Hafiz", "author_slug": "hafiz", "school": "sufism", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1390}
{"id": 460000, "lang": "en", "text": "All knowledge can be acquired by simple observation of phenomena.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460001, "lang": "en", "text": "Liberty of thought and freedom of the press are inseparable.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460002, "lang": "en", "text": "Reason makes us equal; passions make us men.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460003, "lang": "en", "text": "True philosophy aims at the public good.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "peace", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460004, "lang": "en", "text": "The encyclopedia is the great atlas of human knowledge.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "inspiring", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460005, "lang": "en", "text": "Time, well employed, is the only true currency of the mind.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "journey", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460006, "lang": "en", "text": "Doubt is one of the most beautiful exercises of reason.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "courage", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460007, "lang": "en", "text": "Geometry is to the philosopher what the chisel is to the sculptor.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "strength", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460008, "lang": "en", "text": "Music is the language we use to think with our heart.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "uplifting", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 460009, "lang": "en", "text": "Reason is the calmest of all passions.", "author": "Jean le Rond d'Alembert", "author_slug": "dalembert", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "experience", "author_death_year": 1783}
{"id": 461000, "lang": "en", "text": "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "author_slug": "burke", "school": "enlightenment", "category": "learning", "author_death_year": 1797}