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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 2 days ago
After all, why should ordinary people...

After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?

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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 months 4 weeks ago
The mystery is that the world...

The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.

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David Hume
David Hume
5 months 1 week ago
Though experience be our only guide...

Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

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Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1
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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
1 month 2 weeks ago
Additionally, in the United States, we...

Additionally, in the United States, we define manliness in terms of aggression. I think it must be because we're frightened. We put on a show of being tough guys, but it's completely unnecessary, you know. If you have what it takes, you don't need to put on an act, and you certainly don't need to beat nature into submission. Why be hostile to nature?

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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
2 months ago
This [experimentation] is the custom-and properly...

This [experimentation] is the custom-and properly so-in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.

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Salviati, Third Day. Change of Position
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
5 months 2 days ago
The relation of feeling toward art...

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

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p. 78
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
3 months 2 weeks ago
A leftist government doesn't exist because...

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

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from L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche ("Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics"), 1988-1989.
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
3 months 2 weeks ago
Whereas economic man maximizes - selects...

Whereas economic man maximizes - selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices - looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or "good enough."

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p. xxix.
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 3 days ago
Then what should we work for?...

Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring.

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(Hays translation) IV, 33
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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
1 month 2 weeks ago
No, the enjoyment of an idle...

No, the enjoyment of an idle life doesn't cost any money. The capacity for true enjoyment of idleness is lost in the moneyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme contempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatient with the business of making money.

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p. 155
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 2 days ago
A regret understood by no one:...

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
5 months 6 days ago
You can't worship a spirit in...

You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

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John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess, 1955
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William James
William James
5 months 6 days ago
The great thing, then, in all...

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

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Ch. 4
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
5 months 1 week ago
In the sphere of thought, absurdity...

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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"The Art of Controversy" as translated by T. Bailey Saunders
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 month 1 week ago
"Love responsibility. Say: "It is my...

Love responsibility. Say: "It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame." Love each man according to his contribution in the struggle. Do not seek friends; seek comrades-in-arms.

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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
2 months 3 days ago
Ideals are imaginative understanding of that...

Ideals are imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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Ch. XII: "The Business of the Great Society", §9, p. 259
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
5 months 2 weeks ago
Jews hate the name of Christ...

Jews hate the name of Christ and have a secret and innate rancor against the people among whom they live.

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See Silent Truth by Mark Edwards
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 months 3 weeks ago
All movements go...
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 months 4 days ago
Each new technology is a reprogramming...

Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.

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(p. 33)
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
6 months 1 week ago
To one unnamed, whose name will...

To one unnamed, whose name will one day be named, is dedicated, with this little work, the entire authorship, as it was from the beginning.

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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
4 months 2 weeks ago
Happiness is a good flow of...

Happiness is a good flow of life. 

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As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
1 month 2 weeks ago
These influences of my young childhood...

These influences of my young childhood were greatest: 1, the mountain landscape, 2, my father the impossible idealist, and 3, the upringing of a closely-knit Christian home.

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Memoirs of an Octogenarian (1975), pp. 8-9
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 3 weeks ago
To study and not think...

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
5 months 1 week ago
I have entered on an enterprise...

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

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Mozi
Mozi
1 month 2 weeks ago
If we should classify one by...

If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality against one another is the cause of the major calamities in the empire, then partiality is wrong.

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Book 4; Universal Love III
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 months 2 days ago
The capitalists soon had everything in...

The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
4 months 3 weeks ago
Everyday we act in ways that...

Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

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Chapter 3, From Evolution To Ethics?, p. 69
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5 months 1 week ago
It is because the method of...

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 months 6 days ago
We plant trees, we build stone...

We plant trees, we build stone houses, we redeem the waste, we make prospective laws, we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
3 weeks 5 days ago
The really good music, whether...

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 month 6 days ago
The majority, oppressing an individual, is...

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

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Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
3 months 3 days ago
Such delusions of grandeur to think...

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

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Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
2 months 4 weeks ago
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent...

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

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Nobel Prize lecture
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 3 weeks ago
The chief danger to philosophy is...

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

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Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1 month 2 weeks ago
The belly is an ungrateful wretch,...

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 months 4 days ago
In Catch-22, the figure of the...

In Catch-22, the figure of the black market and the ground of war merge into a monster presided over by the syndicate. When war and market merge, all money transactions begin to drip blood.

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(p. 211)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
5 months 1 week ago
Probably in time physiologists will be...

Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 493
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn
1 month 3 weeks ago
We must now ask how changes...

We must now ask how changes of this sort can come about, considering first discoveries, or novelties of fact, and then inventions, or novelties of theory. That distinction between discovery and invention or between fact and theory will, however, immediately prove to be exceedingly artificial.

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p. 52
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Voltaire
Voltaire
5 months 1 week ago
The best government is a benevolent...

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Attributed to Voltaire in Likharev, K.K. (2021). On Government and Politics. In: Likharev, K.K. (eds) Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 2 weeks ago
The most manifest sign of wisdom...

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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Book I, Ch. 26
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
5 months 3 weeks ago
A hymn is the praise of...

A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

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Commentary on the Psalms (c. 1273), Introduction
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
5 months 1 day ago
It has no sense and cannot...

It has no sense and cannot just unless it comes to terms with death. Mine as (well as) that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak the just.

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Exordium
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 months 4 days ago
Money is a corporate image depending...

Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status.

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(p. 133)
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
5 months 6 days ago
In any race between human numbers...

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

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Chapter 12 (p. 113)
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 months 4 weeks ago
To know how just a cause...

To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.

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Ch. IV.: Music
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
3 months 4 weeks ago
The absolute idea is the subject...

The absolute idea is the subject in its final form, thought. The otherness and negation is the object, being. The absolute idea now has to be interpreted as objective being. Hegel's Logic thus ends where it began, with the category of being. This, however is a different being that can no longer be explained thought he concepts applied in the analysis that opened the Logic. For being now is understood in its notion that is, as a concrete totality wherein all particular forms subsist as the essential distinctions and relations of on comprehensive principle. Thus comprehended, being is nature, and dialectical thought passes on to the Philosophy of Nature.

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P. 165-166
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Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
1 month 4 days ago
Too many French scholars were the...

Too many French scholars were the principal authors of the Revolution, too many approved and gave their support so long as the Revolution, like Tarquinius' sceptre, struck down only the tallest heads. Like so many others, they said, It is impossible to make a great revolution without incurring misfortunes. But when a philosopher justifies evil by the end in view, when he says in his heart, Let there be a hundred thousand murders, provided we are free, and Providence replies, I accept your offer, but you must be included in the number, where is the injustice?

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Chapter II, pp. 9-10
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 2 days ago
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered...

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
5 months 1 week ago
The South may keep her pine-apples,...

The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries, which are, as it were, pine-apples with "going a-strawberrying" stirred into them, infinitely enhancing their flavor.

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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
1 month 6 days ago
Ask the world to reveal its...

Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

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