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I will destroy this house, and...

I will destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it....

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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 1 week ago
Sleep is for the inhabitants of...

Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Beauty is the mark God sets...

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 4 days ago
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues,...

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
He would have left a Greek...

He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 3 weeks ago
Practice justice in word and deed,...

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

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As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 1 week ago
The world is all that is...

The world is all that is the case.

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(1) Original German: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 2 weeks ago
To be shaken out of the...

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large - this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
3 weeks 3 days ago
A few centuries from now, if...

A few centuries from now, if involuntary suffering still exists in the world, the explanation for its persistence won't be that we've run out of computational resources to phase out its biological signature, but rather that rational agents - for reasons unknown - will have chosen to preserve it.

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The Radical Plan to Phase out Earth's Predatory Species, io9, 30 Jul. 2014
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
If one thing goes without saying,...

If one thing goes without saying, almost anything can.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 4 weeks ago
Look now, this is the starting...

Look now, this is the starting point of philosophy: the recognition that different people have conflicting opinions, the rejection of mere opinion so that it comes to be viewed with mistrust, an investigation of opinion to determine whether it is rightly held, and the discovery of a standard of judgement, comparable to the balance that we have devised for the determining of weights, or the carpenter's rule for determining whether things are straight or crooked.

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Book II, ch. 11, 13.
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Horace
Horace
3 months 4 days ago
The covetous man….

The covetous man is ever in want.

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Book I, epistle ii, line 56
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is requisite to choose the...

It is requisite to choose the most excellent life; for custom will make it pleasant. Wealth is an infirm anchor, glory is still more infirm; and in a similar manner, the body, dominion, and honour. For all these are imbecile and powerless. What then are powerful anchors. Prudence, magnanimity, fortitude. These no tempest can shake. This is the Law of God, that virtue is the only thing that is strong; and that every thing else is a trifle.

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Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader...

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

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Author's prefaces to the First Edition.
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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
2 months 1 week ago
To make our position clearer, we...

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

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p. 20.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
Religion in most countries, more or...

Religion in most countries, more or less in every country, is no longer what it was, and should be,-a thousand-voiced psalm from the heart of Man to his invisible Father, the fountain of all Goodness, Beauty, Truth, and revealed in every revelation of these; but for the most part, a wise prudential feeling grounded on mere calculation; a matter, as all others now are, of Expediency and Utility; whereby some smaller quantum of earthly enjoyment may be exchanged for a far larger quantum of celestial enjoyment. Thus Religion too is Profit, a working for wages; not Reverence, but vulgar Hope or Fear.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
Luther's merit in literary history is...

Luther's merit in literary history is of the greatest: his dialect became the language of all writing. They are not well written, these Four-and-twenty Quartos of his; written hastily, with quite other than literary objects. But in no Books have I found a more robust, genuine, I will say noble faculty of a man than in these. A rugged honesty, homeliness, simplicity; a rugged sterling sense and strength. He dashes out illumination from him; his smiting idiomatic phrases seem to cleave into the very secret of the matter. Good humor too, nay tender affection, nobleness and depth: this man could have been a Poet too! He had to work an Epic Poem, not write one.

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William Godwin
William Godwin
2 months 1 week ago
Duty is that mode of action...

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage. Right is the claim of the individual to his share of the benefit arising from his neighbors' discharge of their several duties.

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"Summary of Principles". 1.5
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
No sound ought to be heard...

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
Speech and silence. We feel safer...

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 3 weeks ago
People almost invariably arrive at their...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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De l'Art de persuader ["On the Art of Persuasion"], written 1658; published posthumously.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 3 weeks ago
And I myself, in Rome, heard...

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." That is, "After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."

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Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
To all men it is evident...

To all men it is evident that the social interests of one hundred and fifty Millions of us depend on the mysterious industry there carried on; and likewise that the dissatisfaction with it is great, universal, and continually increasing in intensity,-in fact, mounting, we might say, to the pitch of settled despair.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months ago
At the bottom of the heart...

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 2 weeks ago
They should always be heard, and...

They should always be heard, and fairly and kindly answer'd, when they ask after any thing they would know, and desire to be informed about. Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
May not this religious reticence, in...

May not this religious reticence, in these devout good souls, be perhaps a merit, and sign of health in them? Jocelin, Eadmer, and such religious men, have as yet nothing of 'Methodism;' no Doubt or even root of Doubt. Religion is not a diseased self-introspection, an agonising inquiry: their duties are clear to them, the way of supreme good plain, indisputable, and they are traveling on it. Religion lies over them like an all-embracing heavenly canopy, like an atmosphere and life-element, which is not spoken of, which in all things is presupposed without speech. Is not serene or complete Religion the highest aspect of human nature.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
Good order is the foundation of...

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
Do not hire a man who...

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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p. 486
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 2 weeks ago
If two men who were friends...

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much - and then performed so little.

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"On the Sufferings of the World"
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 6 days ago
There are two kinds of means....

There are two kinds of means. One kind is external to that which is accomplished; the other kind is taken up into the consequences and remains immanent in them. There are ends which are merely welcome cessations and there are ends that are fulfillments of what went before. The toil of the laborer is too often an antecedent to the wage he receives, as consumption of gasoline is merely a means to transportation. The means cease to act when the "end" is reached; one would be glad, as a rule, to get the result without having to employ the means. They are but the scaffolding.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
France wanted to make proselytes to...

France wanted to make proselytes to her opinions, and turn every government in the world into a republic. If every government was against her, it was because she had declared herself hostile to every government. He knew of nothing to which this strange republic could be compared, but to the system of Mahomet, who with the koran in one hand, and a sword in the other, held out the former to the acceptance of mankind, and with the latter compelled them to adopt it as their creed. The koran which France held out, was the declaration of the rights of man and universal fraternity; and with the sword she was determined to propagate her doctrines, and conquer those whom she could not convince.

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Speech in the House of Commons (14 December 1792), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXX (1817), column 72
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 weeks ago
This year, or this month, or,...

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

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Book I, Chapter 1, "The Law of Human Nature"
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 1 week ago
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of...

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. ... Whenever the Westerner hears the word "psychological," it always sounds to him like "only psychological."

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Psyche and Symbol (1958), p. 285
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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is difficult…

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Troisième Entretien
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
The blazing evidence of immortality is...

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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July 1855
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 3 weeks ago
Step not beyond the beam of...

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

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Symbol 14
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John Gray
John Gray
3 weeks ago
The British state has defaulted on...

The British state has defaulted on its core functions while attempting to remake society.

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New Statesman, 9 October 2024
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 3 weeks ago
Man know thyself; then thou shalt...

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

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As quoted in Fragments of Reality: Daily Entries of Lived Life (2006) by Peter Cajander, p. 109
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months 2 weeks ago
Canned laughter

Canned laughter: After some supposedly funny or witty remark you can hear the laughter and applause included in the soundtrack of the show itself - here we have the exact counterpart of the Chorus in classical tragedy; it is here that we have to look for 'living Antiquity.' That is to say, why this laughter? The first possible answer - that it serves to remind us when to laugh - is interesting enough, because it implies the paradox that laughter is a matter of duty and not of some spontaneous feeling; but this answer is not sufficient because we do not usually laugh. The only correct answer would be that the Other - embodied in the television set - is relieving us even of our duty to laugh - is instead laughing for us. So even if, tired from a hard days stupid work, all evening we did nothing but gaze drowsily into the television screen, we can say afterwards that objectively, through the medium of the other, we had a really good time.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 4 weeks ago
Males learn to lie as a...

Males learn to lie as a way of obtaining power, and females not only do the same but they also lie to pretend powerlessness.

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Chapter 3, pg. 59
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
It would be worthy of the...

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindus, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scripture of mankind. The New Testament is still, perhaps, too much on the lips and in the hearts of men to be called a Scripture in this sense. Such a juxtaposition and comparison might help to liberalize the faith of men. This is a work which Time will surely edit, reserved to crown the labors of the printing-press. This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 2 weeks ago
Societies are composed of individuals and...

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

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Chapter 3 (p. 20)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
What's sauce for the gander is...

What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

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Introduction, p. 37.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 3 weeks ago
The sun, which passeth through pollutions...

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 1 week ago
It is the good children, Madame,...

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

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Jessica, Act 3, sc. 1
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 4 weeks ago
The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates...

The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
When he entered into the Whig...

When he entered into the Whig party, he did not conceive that they pretended to any discoveries. They did not affect to be better Whigs, than those were who lived in the days in which principle was put to the test. Some of the Whigs of those days were then living. They were what the Whigs had been at the Revolution; what they had been during the reign of queen Anne; what they had been at the accession of the present royal family.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 2 weeks ago
Those who forget good and evil...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
Global rationality, the rationality of neoclassical...

Global rationality, the rationality of neoclassical theory, assumes that the decision maker has a comprehensive, consistent utility function, knows all the alternatives that are available for choice, can compute the expected value of utility associated with each alternative, and chooses the alternative that maximizes expected utility. Bounded rationality, a rationality that is consistent with our knowledge of actual human choice behavior, assumes that the decision maker must search for alternatives, has egregiously incomplete and inaccurate knowledge about the consequences of actions, and chooses actions that are expected to be satisfactory (attain targets while satisfying constraints).

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Simon (1997, p. 17); As cited in: Gustavo Barros (2010, p. 460).
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