Luis E. Navia Quotes

#1. When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

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#2. Conquering cities may not be held against kings, but kicking like an ass should be.

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#3. From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

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#4. Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.

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#5. Schopenhauer noted, are unmistakable signs that one has made peace with the world and that one is willing to perpetuate the social order.71

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#6. In their vain quest for happiness, they only succeed in rendering it more inaccessible not only for themselves, but for everybody else.

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#7. happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it.

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#8. In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices.

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#9. Those who find the world something worthy of praise or who congratulate themselves for having been born in it are either intellectually blind or morally perverse.

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