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Friedrich Nietzsche · 27
Platon · 24
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Morality is not universal, but is created by people to justify their power or weakness.
Beyond Good and Evil · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Philosophy teaches us not to be sure of anything, but gives us the freedom to ask questions.
The Problems of Philosophy · Bertrand Russell · 1912
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True happiness comes from living virtuously, not from having pleasures or riches.
Nicomachean Ethics · Aristotle · -350
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People chained in a cave, seeing only shadows on a wall, might mistake the shadows for real things — just as we sometimes mistake appearance for truth.
The Republic · Plato
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A theory is not scientific because it can be confirmed by examples, but because it could, in principle, be proven wrong by a clear test.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper · 1934
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Sisyphus is condemned to push a rock up a hill forever, only to watch it roll back down — yet Camus believes we can imagine him happy.
The Myth of Sisyphus · Albert Camus · 1942
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Steinhardt redefines freedom as independence from external and internal constraints, not as mere arbitrary choice.
Jurnalul fericirii · Nicolae Steinhardt · 1991
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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react — and that is where your real power lies.
Meditations · Marcus Aurelius · 180
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A ruler who wants to survive should study the world as it truly is, not as good people wish it would be.
The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli · 1532
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Science does not always progress smoothly — sometimes it works calmly within accepted rules, then a discovery suddenly overturns the whole way of thinking.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions · Thomas Kuhn · 1962
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Nietzsche asserts, in a prejudice of his era, that a woman's intellectual inclinations betray a disorder in her sexual nature.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Whoever fights evil risks becoming evil themselves unless they stay watchful.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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A long confrontation with evil or emptiness changes your own inner life.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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A person who knows their own depth prefers to seem simple, even to themselves.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Cities will never be well governed until political power and philosophical knowledge are united in the same people.
Republica · Platon · -375
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The supreme knowledge is understanding the Good, without which all other knowledge loses its purpose.
Republica · Platon · -375
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No evil, whether self-inflicted or inflicted by others, can destroy the soul.
Republica · Platon · -375
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If you learn to see beauty in what cannot be changed, you become a maker of beauty yourself.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Shaping your own life the way an artist shapes a work is a rare and valuable skill.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Whoever cannot impose rules and discipline on himself will be ruled by someone else, or by his own impulses.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Laughter destroys more effectively than rage, because helpless humiliation proves the opponent's weakness more clearly than any attack.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Acts born of love cannot be judged by ordinary moral categories.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Those who lack arguments turn to personal attacks.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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The most widespread lie is the one we tell ourselves.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Intense, compressed writing asks not to be read but to be memorized and lived.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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The Christian God died not through an external attack but through the shared act of modern people who gave him up.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Killing God is a deed so great that people would have to become gods themselves to be worthy of it.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Justice means each part doing its own proper work and not meddling in the business of others.
Republica · Platon · -375
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The prisoners in the cave are chained so that they can see only the shadows projected before them.
Republica · Platon · -375
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Education does not mean inserting knowledge into an empty soul, but turning the soul toward the light.
Republica · Platon · -375
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Cities will never be well governed until political power and genuine wisdom come together in the same people.
Republica · Platon · -375
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The best-governed communities are led by people who rule out of duty, not out of hunger for power.
Republica · Platon · -375
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When you fight against evil, take care not to adopt the methods and traits of what you are fighting.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Thoughts are not commanded by consciousness; they arrive on their own, as things that happen to us.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Even though faith in God has collapsed, people will go on living in the shadow of that belief for a long time, inside mental habits that preserve the old shape.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Surviving a severe trial can strengthen the person who passes through it, provided they turn it into learned experience.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Acts born of love cannot be judged by ordinary moral categories, because they escape the logic of guilt and merit.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Behind most harmful acts lies a good intention that failed.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Maturity means regaining the total seriousness a child has when playing.
Știința voioasă · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882
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Socrates explains his mission to philosophize as a divine command received through oracles, dreams, and other signs.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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The value of a life is not measured by how long it lasts, but by whether it is good or bad.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Socrates claims he spent his whole life on a single task: committing no injustice.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Whoever defends justice in public space is quickly destroyed; the only possible survival is private action.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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No one can hand you virtue; it is acquired through each person's own choice.
Republica · Platon · -375
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Everything right and beautiful traces back to a supreme principle, the idea of the Good.
Republica · Platon · -375
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Facts in themselves are neither moral nor immoral; we attach those qualities to them through the way we read them.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Whoever cannot govern themselves will end up governed by someone else.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Anyone who thinks for the future is bound to clash with the values their own era holds dear.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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The only real wisdom is awareness of one's own ignorance, not the amount of knowledge one holds.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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A life lived without self-examination — without questions about who you are and what is right — does not deserve the name of a human life.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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The causal order is reversed from common belief: virtue is the source of good, including wealth, not the other way around.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Socrates closes his defense by saying his death and their lives are roads whose value only the god knows.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Socrates describes his mission as a constant urging, addressed to everyone, to put the soul above body and money.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Socrates claims that no evil done by others can touch the essence of a good person.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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Respect for your fellow citizens does not require surrendering your conscience: a higher duty, the one owed to truth, comes first.
Apologia lui Socrate · Platon · -399
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When capable people refuse power, they do not leave the stage; they make room for those willing to take it regardless.
Republica · Platon · -375
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Absolute power does not liberate; it makes a person the prisoner of their smallest and basest appetites.
Republica · Platon · -375
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A community cannot be cured of corruption until its most capable and honest members accept to govern.
Republica · Platon · -375
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A false judgment is not automatically worthless; its value is measured by what it does for life, not by its formal truth.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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Every living thing first seeks to release and expand its strength; life is fundamentally will to power.
Dincolo de bine și de rău · Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886
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