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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
3 months 4 days ago
The passion of laughter is nothing...

The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...

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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
2 months ago
We hold that the most wonderful...

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 1 week ago
If the true is what...

If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
5 months 1 week ago
People are scarcely aware that it...

People are scarcely aware that it is a slavery they are creating; they forget this in their zeal to make people free by overthrowing dominions. They are scarcely aware that it is slavery; how could it be possible to be a slave in relation to equals?

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 1 week ago
There are but few points in...

There are but few points in which the English, as a people, are entitled to the moral pre-eminence with which they are accustomed to compliment themselves at the expense of other nations: but, of these points, perhaps the one of greatest importance is, that the higher classes do not lie, and the lower, though mostly habitual liars, are ashamed of lying. To run any risk of weakening this feeling, a difficult one to create, or, when once gone, to restore, would be a permanent evil too great to be incurred for so very temporary a benefit as the ballot would confer, even on the most exaggerated estimate necessity.

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Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859), pp. 48-49
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 1 week ago
Since labour is motion, time is...

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

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Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 125.
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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
3 months 1 week ago
Hegel ... proceeds abstractly from the...

Hegel ... proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. ... He does not appeal to the intellect within us.

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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 week 4 days ago
Let those flatter, who fear…

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.

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Summary View of the Rights of British America
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
It is obvious that "obscenity" is...

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate."

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Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
4 months 6 days ago
In Plato... or Xenophon... we never...

In Plato... or Xenophon... we never see Socrates requiring... examination of conscience or... confession of sins. An account of your life, your bios, is... not to give... the historical events... but... to demonstrate whether you are able to show... a relation between the rational discourse, the logos, you... use, and the way... you live. Socrates is inquiring into the way that logos gives form to a person's style of life... whether there is a harmonic relation between the two... the degree of accord between a person's life and its principle of intelligibility or logos... and the true nature of the relation between the logos and bios.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 week 1 day ago
Constantly and, if it be possible,...

Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.

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VIII, 13
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
2 months 5 days ago
The working classes may be injuriously...

The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.

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Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes
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Gottlob frege
Gottlob frege
3 months 4 days ago
A scientist can hardly meet with...

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

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Note in the appendix of Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Vol. 2) after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 week 5 days ago
What is the purpose of this...

What is the purpose of this struggle? This is what the wretched self-seeking mind of man is always asking, forgetting that the Great Spirit does not toil within the bounds of human time, place, or casualty. The Great Spirit is superior to these human questionings. It teems with many rich and wandering drives which to our shallow minds seem contradictory; but in the essence of divinity they fraternize and struggle together, faithful comrades-in-arms. The primordial Spirit branches out, overflows, struggles, fails, succeeds, trains itself. It is the Rose of the Winds.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 months 1 week ago
Feeling which has not yet emerged...

Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
4 months 1 week ago
When the basic structure of society...

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them.

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Chapter III, Section 29, pg.177
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 1 day ago
The superior man has neither anxiety...

The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 1 week ago
The world is chaos. Nothingness is...

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

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Act IV
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 1 week ago
One hardly saves a world without...

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
4 months 2 weeks ago
Of how much more passion than...

Of how much more passion than reason has Jupiter composed us? putting in, as one would say, "scarce half an ounce to a pound."

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 week 5 days ago
Look upon men and pity them....

Look upon men and pity them. Look at yourself amid all men and pity yourself. In the obscure dusk of life we touch and fumble at each other, we ask questions, we listen, we shout for help.

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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman
2 months 2 days ago
[W]e should be clear that neither...

We should be clear that neither genuine religious nor genuine moral impulses will ever be expressed in terms that tie the two essentially together. If you view religion as necessary for ethics, you've reduced us to the ethical level of 4 year olds. "If you follow these commandments you'll go to heaven, if you don't' you'll burn in hell" is just a spectacular version of the carrots and sticks with which you raise your children.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
4 months 1 week ago
There are infinitely many variations of...

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

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Chapter III, Section 21, pg. 126
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1 day ago
We Jews have been too...

We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. ... Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
2 months 2 weeks ago
The first consequence of the principle...

The first consequence of the principle of bounded rationality is that the intended rationality of an actor requires him to construct a simplified model of the real situation in order to deal with it. He behaves rationally with respect to this model, and such behavior is not even approximately optimal with respect to the real world. To predict his behavior we must understand the way in which this simplified model is constructed, and its construction will certainly be related to his psychological properties as a perceiving, thinking, and learning animal.

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p. 198; Cited in P. Slovic (1972, p. 2).
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
5 months 2 weeks ago
One may certainly admire man as...
One may certainly admire man as a mighty genius of construction, who succeeds in piling an infinitely complicated dome of concepts upon an unstable foundation, and, as it were, on running water. Of course, in order to be supported by such a foundation, his construction must be like one constructed of spiders' webs: delicate enough to be carried along by the waves, strong enough not to be blown apart by every wind.
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
4 months 6 days ago
This book, admirable in so many...

This book, admirable in so many respects, power in its break and style, is even more intimidating for me in that, having formely had the good fortune to study under Michel Foucault, I retain the consciousness of an admiring and grateful disciple. Now, the disciple's consciousness, when he starts, I would not say to dispute, but to engage in dialogue with the master or, better, to articulate the interminable and silent dialogue which made him into a disciple-this disciple's consciousness is an unhappy consciousness.

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Cogito and The History of Madness (Routledge classics edition)
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 months 1 week ago
The dream is the small hidden...

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

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The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
The place of the father in...

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one - particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

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Introduction to The New Generation, 1930
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
4 months 1 week ago
Kant [...] stated that he had...

Kant [...] stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge [...] to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

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p. 63
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
Man Thinking must not be subdued...

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.

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William James
William James
4 months 1 week ago
We can act as if there...

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

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Lecture III, "The Reality of the Unseen"
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1 day ago
Generations to come, it may...

Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

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William James
William James
4 months 1 week ago
The war against war is going...

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered than the glory and shame that come to nations as well as to individuals from the ups and downs of politics and the vicissitudes of trade.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks 5 days ago
Genet is a man-failure....
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 1 day ago
When a man at forty...

When a man at forty is the object of dislike, he will always continue what he is.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 2 weeks ago
How selfish soever man may be...

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

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Section I, Chap. I
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 2 weeks ago
Women . . . have ....

Women . . . have . . . small and narrow chests, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children. . . . A woman is, or at least should be, a friendly, courteous, and a merry companion in life . . . the honor and ornament of the house, and inclined to tenderness, for thereunto are they chiefly created, to bear children, and to be the pleasure, joy and solace of their husbands.

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-- Table Talk, quoted in Luther On "Woman"
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
There is an artist imprisoned in...

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

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Last Essay: "1967"
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 2 weeks ago
Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected...

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

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Chapter I, Part II, p. 773.
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 1 week ago
Media are means of extending and...

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

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"The Care and Feeding of Communication Innovation", Dinner Address to Conference on 8 mm Sound Film and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 8 November 1961
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
By necessity, by proclivity, and by...

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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Quotation and Originality
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 1 week ago
Just as the witticism brings two...

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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Volume I, Book I
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 1 week ago
I would say to the readers...

I would say to the readers of the Scriptures, if they wish for a good book, read the Bhagavad-Gita...translated by Charles Wilkins. It deserves to be read with reverence even by yankees...Besides the Bhagvat-Geeta, our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green...Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light it is destined to derive thence.

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Quoted in Sushama Londhe, A Tribute to Hinduism (New Delhi: Pragun Publication, 2008) p. 26
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 months 1 week ago
They are in you and me;...

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

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Ch. 2. The replicators
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 1 day ago
The Master said, "Hard is...

The Master said, "Hard is it to deal with him, who will stuff himself with food the whole day, without applying his mind to anything good! Are there not gamesters and chess players? To be one of these would still be better than doing nothing at all.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 3 weeks ago
Thinking men and women the world...

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
1 week 4 days ago
An art that heals and protects...

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

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Damage
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
2 months 1 week ago
If you are going to be...

If you are going to be a writer, you must be paranoid. The thing is, in the arts if you don't overreact, you fall asleep.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 1 week ago
Long before physics or psychology were...

Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.

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