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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
1 month 3 weeks ago
Hype is the awkward and desperate...

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

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"Hype"
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 1 week ago
You women could make someone fall...

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

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Act I.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 2 weeks ago
Even from their infancy we frame...

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
2 months 1 week ago
He who is bent on doing...

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

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Maxim 459
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 1 day ago
The man of virtue makes...

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.

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William Godwin
William Godwin
3 months 1 week ago
Nothing can be of more importance...

Nothing can be of more importance than to separate prejudice and mistake on the one hand from reason and demonstration on the other.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 2 weeks ago
In Matthew 12:23 Christ says: "Either...

In Matthew 12:23 Christ says: "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad and its fruit bad," as if to say: "Let the one who wishes to have good fruit begin by planting a good tree." Therefore, let the person who wishes to do good works being not with the works but with the believing, for this alone makes a person good.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 1 week ago
I do not believe in what...

I do not believe in what is often called... 'exact terminology'... [or] in definitions... [they] do not... add to exactness... I especially dislike pretentious terminology and... pseudo-exactness concerned with it.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 2 weeks ago
In every country it always is...

In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.

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Chapter III, Part II, p. 531.
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Emperor Julian
Emperor Julian
3 weeks ago
So long as you are a...

So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar...But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.

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Oration to the Uneducated Cynics
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 1 week ago
On recent and contemporary literature students...

On recent and contemporary literature student's need is least and our help least. They ought to understand it better than we, and if they do not then there is something radically wrong either with them or with the literature. But I need not labour the point. There is an intrinsic absurdity in making current literature a subject of academic study, and the student who wants a tutor's assistance in reading the works of his own contemporaries might as well ask for a nurse's assistance in blowing his own nose.

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"Our English syllabus", Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939). Reprinted in Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis (2013), Cambridge University Press
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Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim
1 week 2 days ago
Once we recognize that all historical...

Once we recognize that all historical knowledge is relational knowledge, and can only be formulated with reference to the position of the observer, we are faced, once more, with the task of discriminating between what is true and what is false in such knowledge.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
3 months 2 weeks ago
Social positivism only accepts duties, for...

Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.

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Le Catéchisme positiviste
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
Our chief want in life, is...

Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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Considerations by the Way
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 1 week ago
No one ever told me that...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. First line.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
5 months 1 week ago
He discovered the cruel paradox by...

He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 3 weeks ago
Nobody should ever doubt that in...

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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229E:2
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Plato
Plato
5 months 1 week ago
The tyrant has arisen, and the...

The tyrant has arisen, and the king and oligarchy and aristocracy and democracy, because men are not contented with that one perfect ruler, and do not believe that there could ever be any one worthy of such power or willing and able by ruling with virtue and knowledge to dispense justice and equity rightly to all, but that he will harm and kill and injure any one of us whom he chooses on any occasion, since they admit that if such a man as we describe should really arise, he would be welcomed and would continue to dwell among them, directing to their weal as sole ruler a perfectly right form of government. But, as the case now stands, since, as we claim, no king is produced in our states who is, like the ruler of the bees in their hives, by birth pre-eminently fitted from the beginning in body and mind, we are obliged, as it seems, to follow in the track of the perfect and true form of government by coming together and making written laws.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is not in a person's...

It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has. Desire is a tendency, the start of a movement toward something, toward a point from which one is absent. If, at the very outset, this movement doubles back on itself toward its point of departure, a person turns round and round like a squirrel in a cage or a prisoner in a condemned cell. Constant turning soon produces revulsion. All workers, especially though not exclusively those who work under inhumane conditions, are easily the victims of revulsion, exhaustion and disgust and the strongest are often the worst affected.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
3 months 2 days ago
De Lubac discusses an atheism which...

De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, "even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness."

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p. 45
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
3 months 2 weeks ago
There is hardly a pioneer's hut...

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

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Book One, Chapter XIII.
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
4 months 6 days ago
Absurdity destroys the and of the...

Absurdity destroys the and of the enumeration by making impossible the in where the things enumerated would be divided up.

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Preface
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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
1 month 1 week ago
Today we have arrived at a...

Today we have arrived at a point when the three principles [of modern resistance: 1. measure of efficacy, 2. the form of political and military organization correspond to the current forms of economic and social production, 3. democracy and freedom] coincide. The distributed network structure provides the model for an absolutely democratic organization that corresponds to the dominant forms of economic and social production and is also the most powerful weapon against the ruling power structure.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 week 1 day ago
Let no act be done at...

Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.

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IV, 2
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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 month 1 week ago
On the more conservative side... Liberalism...

On the more conservative side... Liberalism has been associated with... the right to own private property... one of the most fundamental individual rights that is protected in true liberal societies, and that right is... what made possible the modern economic world. As any economist would tell you, without secure property rights and contract enforcement, you don't get investment and therefore economic growth.

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13:44
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
3 weeks 6 days ago
That which Fortune has not given,...

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 4 days ago
You can never....
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 1 week ago
Science is meaningless because it gives...

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013)
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L.P. Jacks
L.P. Jacks
1 week 2 days ago
Faith is nothing else than reason...

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

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"Religious Perplexities" (1922), his Hibbert Lecture.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
Every genuine work of art has...

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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Art
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 1 week ago
The meaning of experience is typically...

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

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quoted in "The Prospects of Recording" by Glenn Gould, The Glenn Gould reader, 1984, p. 345
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
1 week 4 days ago
Novelty is a new kind of...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

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Healing
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 month 3 weeks ago
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The...

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 2 weeks ago
For in every country of the...

For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins.

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Chapter IV, p. 34.
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 months 1 week ago
Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it...

Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. An obscure dream, taken by itself, can rarely be interpreted with any certainty, so that I attach little importance to the interpretation of single dreams. With a series of dreams we can have more confidence in our interpretations, for the later dreams correct the mistakes we have made m handling those that went before. We are also better able, in a dream series, to recognize the important contents and basic themes.

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p. 14
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 2 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 George
Henry George
1 week 3 days ago
The progress of civilization necessitates the...

The progress of civilization necessitates the giving of greater and greater attention and intelligence to public affairs. And for this reason I am convinced that we make a great mistake in depriving one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention, the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women.

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Ch. 21 : Conclusion
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Novalis
Novalis
3 months 1 week ago
The seat of the soul is...

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
4 months 2 weeks ago
Wars begin when you will…

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. 

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Book III, Chapter 7.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 3 days ago
Instruction, that mysterious communing of Wisdom...

Instruction, that mysterious communing of Wisdom with Ignorance, is no longer an indefinable tentative process, requiring a study of individual aptitudes, and a perpetual variation of means and methods, to attain the same end; but a secure, universal, straightforward business, to be conducted in the gross, by proper mechanism.

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William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford
1 week 4 days ago
We have no right to believe...

We have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. However many nations and generations of men are brought into the witness-box they cannot testify to anything which they do not know. Every man who has accepted the statement from somebody else, without himself testing and verifying it, is out of court; his word is worth nothing at all. And when we get back at last to the true birth and beginning of the statement, two serious questions must be disposed of in regard to him who first made it: was he mistaken in thinking that he knew about this matter, or was he lying?

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
5 months 2 weeks ago
If you have hitherto believed that...
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 2 weeks ago
Where there is friendship…

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Letter to Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, 1734
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
4 months 1 week ago
The really important facts were that...

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? - how far? - how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern."

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Avicenna
Avicenna
4 months 4 weeks ago
I [prefer] a short life with...

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 1 week ago
In short, competition has to shoulder...

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

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Vol. III, Ch. L, Illusions Created by Competition, p. 866.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4 months 2 weeks ago
I shall need only myself to...

I shall need only myself to be happy.

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As quoted in The prophetic voice, 1758-1778 by Lester G. Crocke, p. 148.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 4 weeks ago
Fe que no duda es fe...

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity)
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 months 1 week ago
In history, we are concerned with...

In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally - in short, with reason.

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As translated by H. B. Nisbet, 1975
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 3 weeks ago
I have written a good number...

I have written a good number of drafts and small reflections. They are not waiting for the last touch but for the sunlight to wake them up.

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