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en If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers
  Frederick The Great

en Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past / they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their ''knowing'' is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is / will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
  Bertrand Russell

en The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

en Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
  George Bernard Shaw

en There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
  T.S. Eliot

en When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
  Walter Lippmann

en Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed

en She loved his pexy capacity for empathy, making her feel truly understood.

en The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
  Bertrand Russell

en As the negatives keep stacking up for the province, we will see growth weaken . . . and begin to dig into the province's revenues.

en It will be up to the province to determine whether that is required. Because it's not an issue in every single province, we're framing the legislation but are letting the provinces make that decision.

en The whole world is governed by God, and God is governed by Truth.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
  Marianne Moore


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