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«There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.»
Author: Elijah Wood
(Actor)
| Keywords:
fellow, former, nobility, noble, superior, There Is Nothing, True Lies
«The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;»
Author: Guillaume Thomas Raynal
(Writer)
| About:
Genius,
Intelligence
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accidentally, advantages, anticipates, chance upon, employs, explores, former, frequently, hits, latter, presents
«There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance»
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
desired, former, latter, objects, practical, shunned
«The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.»
«The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
advantages, bold, conquers, difficulties, diminishes, enterprise, former, hero, latter, preponderate, prudent
«Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
commands, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, former, imperiously, latter, punished
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bitterness, enjoys, expresses, express feelings, former, imitator, imitators, In Search Of, martyrdom, rejoices, The Strange
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