Skip to main content
3 months 3 weeks ago

Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child's is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.

0
0
Source
source
Combining fragments of Heraclitus and Homer
3 weeks 3 days ago

There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.

0
0
Source
source
(Hays translation) II, 4
3 months 3 weeks ago

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

0
0
4 months 2 days ago

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

0
0
Source
source
Section 4
4 months 2 weeks ago

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

0
0
Source
source
Book II, satire ii, line 111
1 month 3 weeks ago

The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

0
0
Source
source
[Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching], L'enseignement mathématique
4 months 3 weeks ago

Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.

0
0
Source
source
p. 67e
3 months 2 weeks ago

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

0
0
Source
source
Revelation
1 month 2 weeks ago

Grave talk and grave humor with the doers of the craft. Building, walling, is an operation that beyond most other manual ones requires incessant consideration - even new invention. I have heard good judges say that he excelled in it all persons they had seen.

0
0
3 months 1 week ago

The cult of the Virgin, Mariolatry, which by the gradual elevation of the divine element in the Virgin has led almost to her deification, answers merely to the feeling that God should be a perfect man, that God should include in his nature the feminine element. The progressive exaltation of the Virgin Mary, the work of Catholic piety, having its beginning in the expression Mother of God, ...has culminated in attributing to her the status of co-redeemer and in the dogmatic declaration of her conception without the stain of original sin. Hence she now occupies a position between Humanity and Divinity and nearer Divinity than Humanity. And it has been surmised that in course of time she may perhaps even come to be regarded as yet another personal manifestation of the Godhead.

0
0
4 months 4 weeks ago

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

0
0
Source
source
Vol. 2, Ch. 3, § 39
3 months 3 weeks ago

He laid it down as a maxim, that monarchy was the basis of all good government and the nearer to monarchy any government approached, the more perfect it was, and vice versa; and he certainly in his wildest moments, never had so far forgotten the nature of government, as to argue that we ought to wish for a constitution that we could alter at pleasure, and change like a dirty shirt. He was by no means anxious for a monarchy with a dash of republicanism to correct it. But the French constitution was the exact opposite of the English in every thing, and nothing could be so dangerous as to set it up to the view of the English, to mislead and debauch their minds.

0
0
Source
source
Speech in the House of Commons (6 May 1791), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXIX (1817), column 385
1 month 2 weeks ago

Complete, at the same time, was his confidence in his own judgment when it spoke to him decisively. He was one of those few that could believe and know as well as inquire and be of opinion. When I remember how much he admired intellectual force, how much he had of it himself, and yet how unconsciously and contentedly he gave others credit for superiority, I again see the healthy spirit of the genuine man.

0
0
1 month 1 week ago

I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

0
0
Source
source
Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 437

The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law ... loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.

0
0
2 months 3 weeks ago

If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here...to leave and go to a proper university.

0
0
Source
source
At Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, (23 October 2006) Broadcasted by C-SPAN2
3 months 2 weeks ago

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

0
0
Source
source
p. 8
3 weeks 3 days ago

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains and infinite other things. There is one common substance, though it is distributed among countless bodies which have their several qualities. There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.

0
0
Source
source
XII, 30
3 weeks 6 days ago

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

0
0
Source
source
"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" in Farming: A Hand Book
3 months 2 weeks ago

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

0
0
Source
source
p. 130
1 month 1 week ago

In the new order a Locke was free-with almost no danger of being interfered with-to think his sublime thoughts, to seek the first causes of all things, to understand the nature of things. He could talk with his friends and teach the young. And there was money enough. The academies and universities satisfied Socrates' demand to be fed in the prytaneum.

0
0
Source
source
Commerce and Culture, p. 289.
1 month 3 weeks ago

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

0
0
Source
source
Thermodynamique: Leçons professées pendant le premier semestre 1888-1889 (1892), Preface
3 months 2 weeks ago

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science - of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of philology - may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudo-philosophical erudition.

0
0
1 month 2 weeks ago

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

0
0
Source
source
Histories, XVIII, 43 (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
4 months 3 weeks ago

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, - men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride!

0
0
Source
source
p. 189
3 months 3 weeks ago

It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable.

0
0
3 months 2 weeks ago

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.

0
0
Source
source
Pt. IV, Expression; § 67: "Conclusion.", p. 267
1 month 1 week ago

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor. They produce thereby such extreme phenomena as in Paris the remunerative occupation of the quatorzième. They are persons who identify themselves by signs on their residences and who are ready at the dinner hour in correct attire, so that they can be quickly called upon if a dinner party should consist of thirteen persons. In the measure of its expansion, the city offers more and more the decisive conditions of the division of labor. It offers a circle which through its size can absorb a highly diverse variety of services.

0
0
Source
source
p. 420
5 months 1 day ago

It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another.

0
0
2 months 2 weeks ago

Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows.

0
0
Source
source
The Limits of Liberty, The American Spectator
5 months 1 week ago

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.

0
0
4 months 4 weeks ago

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

0
0
Source
source
Book IV, Ch. 7
4 months 4 days ago

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. Can Love be controlled by Advice?

0
0
Source
source
reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
4 months 4 weeks ago

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

0
0
Source
source
"Sources of Intolerance"
3 months 3 weeks ago

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

0
0
Source
source
Part 1, Chapter 5
5 months 2 weeks ago

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

0
0
2 months 6 days ago

Why expect a false theory of the world, i.e. classical physics, to yield a true account of consciousness?

0
0
Source
source
Social Media Unsorted Postings 2016
4 months 2 weeks ago

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

0
0
Source
source
Book I, satire ix, line 59
4 months 4 weeks ago

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

0
0
Source
source
Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy
3 months 2 weeks ago

To regiment artists, to make them servants of some particular cause does violence to the very springs of artistic creation. But it does more than that. It betrays the very cause of a better future it would serve, for in its subjugation of the individuality of the artist it annihilates the source of that which is genuinely new. Where the regimentation is successful, it would cause the future to be but a rearrangement of the past.

0
0
2 months 2 weeks ago

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour?

0
0
Source
source
Paper Dedicated to the Governments of Great Britain, Austria, Russia, France, Prussia and the United States of America (1841) 17th of "20 Questions to the Human Race"
2 months 1 week ago

I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject to the production of proof that physiological species may be produced by selective breeding; just as a physical philosopher may accept the undulatory theory of light, subject to the proof of the existence of the hypothetical ether; or as the chemist adopts the atomic theory, subject to the proof of the existence of atoms; and for exactly the same reasons, namely, that it has an immense amount of primâ facie probability: that it is the only means at present within reach of reducing the chaos of observed facts to order; and lastly, that it is the most powerful instrument of investigation which has been presented to naturalists since the invention of the natural system of classification and the commencement of the systematic study of embryology.

0
0
Source
source
Ch.2, p. 128
3 weeks 3 days ago

What if someone despises me? Let me see to it. But I will see to it that I won't be found doing or saying anything contemptible. What if someone hates me? Let me see to that. But I will see to it that I'm kind and good-natured to all, and prepared to show even the hater where they went wrong. Not in a critical way, or to show off my patience, but genuinely and usefully.

0
0
Source
source
XI. 13:179
2 months 2 weeks ago

No doubt a tumult caused by local and temporary irritation ought to be suppressed with promptitude and vigour. Such disturbances, for example, as those which Lord George Gordon raised in 1780, should be instantly put down with the strong hand. But woe to the Government which cannot distinguish between a nation and a mob! Woe to the Government which thinks that a great, a steady, a long continued movement of the public mind is to be stopped like a street riot! This error has been twice fatal to the great House of Bourbon. God be praised, our rulers have been wiser. The golden opportunity which, if once suffered to escape, might never have been retrieved, has been seized. Nothing, I firmly believe, can now prevent the passing of this noble law, this second Bill of Rights.

0
0
Source
source
Speech in the House of Commons on the Reform Bill (5 July 1831), quoted in Speeches of the Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. (1854), pp. 34-35
4 months 3 weeks ago

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.

0
0
Source
source
In Memoriam E. B. E.
3 weeks 6 days ago

You will next read the new testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions 1. of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspended & reversed the laws of nature at will, & ascended bodily into heaven: and 2. of those who say he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, & was Punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law which punished the first commission of that offence by whipping, & the second by exile or death in furcâ.

0
0

CivilSimian.com created by AxiomaticPanic, CivilSimian, Kalokagathia