The Greatest Minds And Ideas Of All Time

Question 1

Humor is

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Akin to philosophy for they are both viewpoints born of a large perspective of life

Question 2

Confucius (552 BC -)

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Return good for good, evil for justice

Question 3

No doubt, when we are dead

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Some careful and conscientious scholar will prove that we never existed

Question 4

Darwin had

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Reduced man to an animal fighting for his transient mastery of the globe

Question 5

Initium dimidium facti

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The start is half the deed
- The romans

Question 6

Read William James because

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We should try to understand ourselves before we ponder the history of mankind

Question 7

Life without music

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Would be a mistake
- Nietzsche

Question 8

Beauty is born

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In suffering and wisdom is the child of grief

Question 9

It is always

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Easier to love the weak than the strong; the strong do not need our love, and instinctively we look for flaws in their irritating perfection, every statue is a provocation

Question 10

Idiots are

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Happier than geniuses

Question 11

Those whom we most respect

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Seek not happiness but greatness

Question 12

Its is not revolution

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But invention that will liberate the slave

Question 13

Print can

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Bind civilizations

Question 14

Life is full of

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Suffering; made bearable only by doing no injury to any living thing, and speaking no evil of any man - or woman either

Question 15

The industrial revolution threw

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Millions and millions of men out of their homes and farms into cities and factories, transforming society and government

Question 16

Voltaire had

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No scepter, but a pen

Question 17

May humans study history for

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It is the only true psychology, and the only true philosophy