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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

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Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 20th, 1902

Died: July 12th, 1989

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