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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 6 days ago
As long as I live I...

As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
...the reality of society involves the...

...the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 6 days ago
If to describe a misery were...

If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
3 weeks 4 days ago
The struggle between the opponents and...

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

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p. 233
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 6 days ago
I get along quite well with...

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 days ago
Kierkegaard's individualistic interpretation of 'the negation...

Kierkegaard's individualistic interpretation of 'the negation of philosophy' inevitably developed a fierce opposition to Western rationalism. .... According to Kierkegaard, the individual is not the knowing but only the 'ethically existing subjectivity.' The sole reality that matters to him is his own 'ethical existence'.

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P. 263-264
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 1 week ago
He blamed as severely what he...

He blamed as severely what he thought a bad action, when the motive was a feeling of duty, as if the agents had been consciously evil doers. He would not have accepted as a plea in mitigation for inquisitors, that they sincerely believed burning heretics to be an obligation of conscience. But though he did not allow honesty of purpose to soften his disapprobation of actions, it had its full effect on his estimation of characters. No one prized conscientiousness and rectitude of intention more highly, or was more incapable of valuing any person in whom he did not feel assurance of it.

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(pp. 49-50)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 1 week ago
The chief objection I have to...

The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word "world".

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On Pantheism as quoted in Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words (1900) by John Kenyon Kilbourn; also in Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays (2007), p. 40
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 1 week ago
Technology discloses the active relation of...

Technology discloses the active relation of man towards nature, as well as the direct process of production of his very life, and thereby the process of production of his basic societal relations, of his own mentality, and his images of society, too.

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Vol. I, Ch. 13: "Machinery and Big Industry".
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months ago
At one level, this movement on...

At one level, this movement on behalf of oppressed farm animals is emotional...Yet the movement is also the product of a deep intellectual ferment pioneered by the Princeton scholar Peter Singer...This idea popularized by Professor Singer - that we have ethical obligations that transcend our species - is one whose time appears to have come...What we're seeing now is an interesting moral moment: a grass-roots effort by members of one species to promote the welfare of others...animal rights are now firmly on the mainstream ethical agenda.

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Nicholas Kristof, "Humanity Even for Nonhumans," in The New York Times (8 April 2009).
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
1 month 1 week ago
The life of the wealthy is...

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 1 week ago
Four snakes gliding up and down...

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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April 11, 1834
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 1 week ago
It will be easy for us...

It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
But, if it will help ease...

But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.

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Aegistheus, Act 2
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 4 weeks ago
Things have their root and their...

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
3 weeks 2 days ago
Radical black feminists have never confined...

Radical black feminists have never confined their vision to just the emancipation of black women or women in general, or all black people for that matter. Rather, they are the theorists and proponents of a radical humanism committed to liberating humanity and reconstructing social relations across the board. When bell hooks says "Feminism is for everybody," she is echoing what has always been a basic assumption of black feminists. We are not talking about identity politics but a constantly developing often contested, revolutionary conversation about how all of us might envision and remake the world.

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Robin Kelley Freedom Dreams
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 week ago
In some lyceums they tell me...

In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about.

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p. 490
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 1 week ago
Science is not a system of...

Science is not a system of certain, or well established, statements; nor is it a statement which steadily advances towards state of finality. Our science is not knowledge (epistēmē): it can newer claim to have attained truth, or even substitute for it, such as probability. . . . We do not know; we can only guess.

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Ch. 10 "Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests", section 85: The Path of Science, p. 278.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 week 2 days ago
Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca...

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-I really believe he is Antichrist-I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you-sit down and tell me all the news.

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Bk. I, Ch. I
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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman
Just now
How do we remember the parts...

How do we remember the parts of our histories we'd rather forget?

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Repression and revision are always options.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 6 days ago
The important thing isn't the soundness...

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
...the impossible must be supposed in...

...the impossible must be supposed in order to explain the superdetermination of the event

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p. 301
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 6 days ago
The quality of feeling is the...

The quality of feeling is the true psychical representative of the first category of the immediate as it is in its immediacy, of the present in its direct positive presentness. Qualities of feeling show myriad-fold variety, far beyond what the psychologists admit. This variety however is in them only insofar as they are compared and gathered into collections. But as they are in their presentness, each is sole and unique; and all the others are absolute nothingness to it - or rather much less than nothingness, for not even a recognition as absent things or as fictions is accorded to them. The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 1 : Presentness, CP 5.44
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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 3 weeks ago
"These Macedonians," said he, "are a...

"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."

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39 Philip
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
3 days ago
It is therefore, the interest of...

It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.

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A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies
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Lucretius
Lucretius
2 months 3 weeks ago
For as children….

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

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Book II, lines 55-61 (tr. Rouse)
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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 1 week ago
The difference principle, for example, requires...

The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged.

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Chapter II, Section 16, pg. 95
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 2 weeks ago
Faith is born and preserved in...

Faith is born and preserved in us by preaching why Christ came, what he brought and gave to us, and the benefits we obtain when we receive him. This happens when Christian liberty - which he gives to us - is rightly taught and we are told in what way as Christians we are all kings and priests and therefore lords of all.

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p. 70
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 days ago
The public execution is to be...

The public execution is to be understood not only as a judicial, but also as a political ritual. It belongs, even in minor cases, to the ceremonies by which power is manifested.

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Chapter One, The body of the condemned
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
When you move into a new...

When you move into a new area, a new territory and learn a new language, the language is not a new subject, it is an environment, it is total.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
Another theme of the Wake that...

Another theme of the Wake that helps in the understanding of the paradoxical shift from cliché to archetype is "pastimes are past times". The dominant technologies of one age become the games and pastimes of a later age. In the twentieth century the number of past times that are simultaneously available is so vast as to create cultural anarchy. When all the cultures of the world are simultaneously present, the work of the artist in the elucidation of form takes on new scope and new urgency. Most men are pushed into the artist role. The artist cannot dispense with the principle of doubleness and interplay since this kind of hendiadys-dialogue is essential to the very structure of consciousness, awareness, and autonomy.

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(p.99)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 1 week ago
I now myself live, in every...
I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 2 weeks ago
There is no road or ready...

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

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Section 55
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 2 weeks ago
When our Lord and Master Jesus...

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent," he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

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Thesis 1
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
1 month 3 weeks ago
All the good are friends of...

All the good are friends of one another.

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As quoted in Stromata, v. 14. by Clement of Alexandria
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 days ago
The constitution of madness as mental...

The constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

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Preface to 1961 edition
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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 2 days ago
To feel most beautifully alive means...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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The Greeks possessed...
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 week ago
The Vedas contain a sensible account...

The Vedas contain a sensible account of God." "The veneration in which the Vedas are held is itself a remarkable feat. Their code embraced the whole moral life of the Hindus and in such a case there is no other truth than sincerity. Truth is such by reference to the heart of man within, not to any standard without.

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A Tribute to Hinduism, 2008
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 5 days ago
And if it is grievous to...

And if it is grievous to be doomed one day to cease to be, perhaps it would be more grievous still to go on being always oneself, and no more than oneself, without being able to be at the same time other, without being able to be at the same time everything else, without being able to be all.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
This day I heard from Laurence...

This day I heard from Laurence who has sent me papers confirming the portentous State of France-where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, and a world of Monsters to be producd in the place of it-where Mirabeau presides as the Grand Anarch; and the late Grand Monarch makes a figure as ridiculous as pitiable.

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Letter to Richard Burke (c. 10 October 1789), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 30
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 5 days ago
Everyone is the other, and no...

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.

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Stambaugh translation
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 2 weeks ago
When we desire to confine our...

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.

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Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 3 weeks ago
No man is free who is...

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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Fragment 35 (Oldfather translation)
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 weeks 3 days ago
Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and...

Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

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p. 203.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 6 days ago
This heart within me I can...

This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
1 month ago
Imminent seems the collapse of that...

Imminent seems the collapse of that which for millennium has constituted man's universe. The new world which has arisen as an apparatus for supply of the necessaries of life compels everything and everyone to serve it. It annihilates whatever it has no place for person seems to be going undergoing absorption into that which is nothing more than a means to an end, into that which is devoid of purpose of significance.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 1 week ago
... the attempt to make heaven...

... the attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. It leads to intolerance. It leads to religious wars, and to the saving of souls through the inquisition. And it is, I believe, based on a complete misunderstanding of our moral duties. It is our duty to help those who need help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 24 "Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason"
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
They who bow to the enemy...

They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home.

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Plato
Plato
3 months 1 week ago
Such was the vast power which...

Such was the vast power which the god settled in the lost island of Atlantis; and this he afterwards directed against our land for the following reasons, as tradition tells: For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed they were; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, uniting gentleness with wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another.

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