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Horace
4 months 2 weeks ago
As for me…

As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

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Book I, epistle iv, lines 15-16
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 3 weeks ago
The doctrine that there is as...

The doctrine that there is as much science in a subject as... mathematics in it, or as much... measurement or 'precision' in it, rests upon... misunderstanding.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
5 months 3 weeks ago
History is a story without an...

History is a story without an end.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 4 weeks ago
Love is something far more than...

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
3 months 2 weeks ago
I write to thee on this...

I write to thee on this subject, friend, because I am angry at a book which I have just left, which is so large, that it seems to contain universal science, but it hath almost split my head, without teaching me anything.

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No. 66.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
6 months ago
We obtain the concept, as we...
We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 4 weeks ago
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering...

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

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Sec. 35
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
4 months 2 days ago
The God of the Christians is...

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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No. 16
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 4 weeks ago
As to the having and possessing...

As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.

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Sec. 110
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 4 weeks ago
In our science and philosophy, even,...

In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

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p. 490
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
2 months 2 weeks ago
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious....

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it. They should, because they put it all in beforehand. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.

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The Dean's December (1982), ch. 18, p. 298
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
3 weeks 6 days ago
What one has to say to...

What one has to say to begin with is that, as humans, we are limited in intelligence and we really have no reliable foresight. So none of us will come up with answers to the whole great problem. What we can do is judge our behavior, our history, and our present situation by a better standard than "efficiency" or "profit," or those measures that we're still using to determine economic decisions.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
5 months 5 days ago
Man is by nature unable to...

Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.

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Thesis 17
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 4 weeks ago
We are thus led to a...

We are thus led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by " soft " data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.

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p. 70
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 months 4 weeks ago
Russia was a slave in Europe...

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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As quoted in "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2 (April 1999), pp. 180
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
3 months 2 weeks ago
The present contains nothing more than...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
5 months 3 weeks ago
Scientists have pushed back the horizon...

Scientists have pushed back the horizon of time from the biblical 6,000 years to 4,600,000,000 years for the age of Earth a 760,000-fold increase.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 3 weeks ago
The unformulated message of an assembly...

The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.

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p. 291
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie
1 month 3 weeks ago
The good seed that nature plants...

The good seed that nature plants in us is so slight and so slippery that it cannot withstand the least harm from wrong nourishment.

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Part 2
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
3 months 2 weeks ago
The transition from philosophy to the...

The transition from philosophy to the domain of state and society had been an intrinsic part of Hegel's system.

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P. 251
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Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
3 weeks 4 days ago
How many mistakes power has committed!...

How many mistakes power has committed! And how often has it ignored the means to conserve itself! Man is insatiable for power; he is infinite in his desires, and, always discontented with what he has, he loves only what he has not. People complain about the despotism of princes; they should complain about that of man. We are all born despots, from the most absolute monarch of Asia to the child who smothers a bird with his hand for the pleasure of seeing something in the world weaker than himself. There is no man who does not abuse power, and experience proves that the most abominable despots, if they come to seize the sceptre, will be precisely those who rant against despotism.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
5 months 4 weeks ago
A Roman emperor sitting at the...

A Roman emperor sitting at the table surrounded by his bodyguard is a magnificent sight, but when the reason is fear, the magnificence pales. So also when the individual does not dare stand taciturnly by his word, does not stand freely and confidently on the pedestal of a conscious act, but is surrounded by a host of deliberations before and after that render him incapable of getting his eye on the action.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is written, My house shall...

It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

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21:13 (KJV)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 5 days ago
There were never in the world...

There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

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Ch. 37
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
2 months 1 week ago
I think we have reached a...

I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
2 months 2 weeks ago
Nothing is so galling to a...

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth, as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear.

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p. 252
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus
1 month 1 week ago
We should become angels and not...

We should become angels and not devils, that's why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 4 weeks ago
The Grecian are youthful and erring...

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
5 months 3 weeks ago
I simply don't think it is...

I simply don't think it is reasonable to use IQ tests to produce results of questionable value, which may then serve to justify racists in their own minds and to help bring about the kinds of tragedies we have already witnessed earlier in this century.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 months 1 week ago
Science seems to me to teach...

Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

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Will Durant
Will Durant
1 month 2 weeks ago
It is true that even across...

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 weeks ago
Truths begin by a conflict with...

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 months 2 weeks ago
In the Gospels, for instance, we...

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

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Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), p. 54
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 2 weeks ago
And love, above all when it...

And love, above all when it struggles against destiny, overwhelms us with the feeling of the vanity of this world of appearances and gives us a glimpse of another world, in which destiny is overcome and liberty is law.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 4 weeks ago
It was in the reign of...

It was in the reign of Charles II that they obtained the noble distinction of being exempted from giving their testimony on oath in a court of justice, and being believed on their bare affirmation. On this occasion the chancellor, who was a man of wit, spoke to them as follows: "Friends, Jupiter one day ordered that all the beasts of burden should repair to be shod. The asses represented that their laws would not allow them to submit to that operation. 'Very well,' said Jupiter; 'then you shall not be shod; but the first false step you make, you may depend upon being severely drubbed.'"

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 weeks ago
One grasps incomparably more things in...

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
2 months 4 weeks ago
Someday, someday, this crazy world will...

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
3 months 1 week ago
I have wanted them to have...

I have wanted them to have this simple definition to read again and again so they know: Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

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Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014), p.XII
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 weeks ago
No one can enjoy freedom without...

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
4 months 3 weeks ago
The bourgeois public sphere may be...

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

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p. 27
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 months 1 week ago
Logos is powerless without the force...

Logos is powerless without the force of eros.

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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 2 weeks ago
The superior man, extensively studying...

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 weeks ago
"Neither this world, nor the next,...

"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
5 months 1 day ago
The world neither ever saw, nor...

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

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Chapter X, Part I.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 2 weeks ago
And killing time is perhaps the...

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks 6 days ago
Men whose research...
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 3 weeks ago
Men became scientific because they expected...

Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.

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Ch. 3: "The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism"
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 month 1 week ago
A great step….

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 4 weeks ago
Toleration is good for all, or...

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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Speech on the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 5 days ago
There is a plague on Man,...

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

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