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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
He who remembers the evils he...

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

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Ch. 13
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
Certainly He says this for me,...

Certainly He says this for me, for thee, for this other man, since He bears His body, the Church. Unless you imagine, brethren, that when He said: My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from (Matt. 26:39), it was the Lord that feared to die. . . . But Paul longed to die, that he might be with Christ. What? The Apostle desires to die, and Christ Himself should fear death? What can this mean, except that He bore our infirmity in Himself, and uttered these words for those who are in His body and still fear death? It is from these that the voice came; it was the voice of His members, not of the Head. When He said, My soul is sorrowful unto death (Matt. 26:38), He manifested Himself in thee, and thee in Himself. And when He said, My God, my God, why has Thou forsaken Me? (Matt. 27:46), the words He uttered on the cross were not His own, but ours.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks 3 days ago
Propaganda...

Propaganda:

Good = God (take a letter)
Evil = Devil (add a letter)

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 5 days ago
People no longer look at each...

People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy. They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc. Everywhere one recycles lost faculties, or lost bodies, or lost sociality, or the lost taste for food.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 13
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
Saying is one thing and doing...

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

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Ch. 31
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 6 days ago
Rational mechanics must be the science...

Rational mechanics must be the science of the motions which result from any forces, and of the forces which are required for any motions, accurately propounded and demonstrated. For many things induce me to suspect, that all natural phenomena may depend upon some forces by which the particles of bodies are either drawn towards each other, and cohere, or repel and recede from each other: and these forces being hitherto unknown, philosophers have pursued their researches in vain. And I hope that the principles expounded in this work will afford some light, either to this mode of philosophizing, or to some mode which is more true.

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Preface, translation in William Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks ago
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society,...

Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

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The Second Part, Chapter 29, p. 168
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 3 days ago
It is simplicity that makes the...

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months ago
The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm,...

The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm, but a certain lack of certainty was gathering, and he did not like to experience a lack of certainty. He liked nothing which made him aware of limitations. An Autarch should have no limitations, and on Lingane he had none that natural law did not impose.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
Those that will combat use and...

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 days ago
Fine manners need the support of...

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 4 days ago
To teach him betimes to love...

To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.

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Sec. 139
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 4 days ago
Great minds are related to the...

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 20, Β§ 242
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Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
6 days ago
There is no social entity with...

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.

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Ch. 3 : Moral Constraints and the State; Why Side Constraints?, p. 32
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 day ago
I became my own only when...

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

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Letters of C. S. Lewis (17 July 1953), para. 2, p. 251 - as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 334
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
1 week 4 days ago
The public has lost the habit...

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

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"Decline of Cinema"
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 days ago
Perseus wore a magic cap that...

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him.We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

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Author's prefaces to the First Edition.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months ago
People don't stop things they enjoy...

People don't stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age. They don't stop playing tennis just because they turn 40, they don't stop with sex just because they turn 40; they keep it up as long as they can if they enjoy it, and learning will be the same thing.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 weeks ago
The evolutionary urge drives man to...

The evolutionary urge drives man to seek for intenser forms of fulfillment, since his basic urge is for more life, more consciousness, and this contentment has an air of stagnation that the healthy mind rejects. (This recognition lies at the centre of my own 'outsider theory': that there are human beings to whom comfort means nothing, but whose happiness consists in following an obscure inner-drive, an 'appetite for reality'.)

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Democritus
Democritus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Sweet exists….

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, colour by convention; atoms and Void [alone] exist in reality.

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(trans. Freeman 1948), p. 92.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 days ago
It is entirely clear that there...

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

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"The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War" in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10/1/1945
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 weeks ago
One simple method is to take...

One simple method is to take a pen or pencil and hold it up against a blank wall or ceiling. Now concentrate on the pen as if it is the most important thing in the world. Then allow your sense to relax, so you see the pen against the background of the wall. Concentrate again. Relax again. Keep on doing this until you become aware of the ability to focus attention at will. You will find that this unaccustomed activity of the will is tiring; it produces a sense of strain behind the eyes. My own perception is that if you persist, in spite of the strain, the result is acute discomfort, followed by a sudden immense relief - the 'peak experience'.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 weeks 4 days ago
That mysterious independent variable of political...

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

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Universities, Actual and Ideal
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
3 months 6 days ago
TO LOVE is to find pleasure...

TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. Thus the habit of loving someone is nothing other than BENEVOLENCE by which we want the good of others, not for the profit that we gain from it, but because it is agreeable to us in itself. CHARITY is a general benevolence. And JUSTICE is charity in accordance with wisdom. ... so that one does not do harm to someone without necessity, and that one does as much good as one can, but especially where it is best employed.

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"A Dialogue" (after 1695), as quoted in The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
Let us rejoice and give thanks....

Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His members.

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(1 Cor. 12:27). p. 415
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 3 weeks ago
Now precisely because Galilean science is...

Now precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt, it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt. It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.

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p. 164
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SΓΈren Kierkegaard
SΓΈren Kierkegaard
4 months 3 days ago
When you read God's Word, in...

When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking - this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness. Not a single one of those to whom the cause of Christianity in the higher sense has been entrusted forgot to urge this again and again as most crucial, as unconditionally the condition if you are to come to see yourself in the mirror.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 4 days 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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comfortdragon
1 month 1 week ago
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William James
William James
3 months 2 days ago
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual...

Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

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Ch. 12
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months ago
I write in a hurry, because...

I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

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Letter to Gilbert Imlay
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 weeks ago
What pride to discover that nothing...

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 3 days ago
Now men seem, not unreasonably, to...

Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.

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Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
2 months 3 weeks ago
Rather, we heirs of Enlightenment think...

Rather, we heirs of Enlightenment think of enemies of liberal democracy like Nietzsche or Loyola as, to use Rawls's word, "mad." We do so because there is no way to see them as fellow citizens of our constitutional democracy, people whose life plans might, given ingenuity and good will, be fitted in with those of other citizens. They are crazy because the limits of sanity are set by what we can take seriously. This, in turn, is determined by our upbringing, our historical situation.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 3 days ago
It is well said, then, that...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
1 month 2 weeks ago
If I knew of…

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman, because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 day ago
Without the aid of trained emotions...

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat,' than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 weeks ago
My theory was that we are...

My theory was that we are all fundamentally 'multiple personalities', beginning with the baby and the child, and slowly developing into more complex selves. If, for some reason, we abruptly cease to develop -- through some trauma that undermines self-confidence -- all those potential personalities are stunted and repressed. And some accident or violent shock may give one of them the opportunity to 'take over'. This suggests, of course, that in some mysterious sense, our 'future' personalities are already there, in embryo, so to speak, and that they also develop as we mature. We move from personality to personality, as we might climb a ladder. The Beethovens and Leonardos got further up the ladder than most of us; yet even they failed to reach the top, as we can see if we study their lives.

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pp. 228- 229
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 days ago
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the...

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 4 days ago
The poet presents the imagination with...

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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Vol. 2 "On Philosophy and the Intellect" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 3 weeks ago
Being is continuous becoming. P. 136

Being is continuous becoming.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 2 days ago
You can do everything with bayonets...

You can do everything with bayonets except sit on them. If you want to preserve your power indefinitely you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs as I foresaw in "Brave new World", and partly by these new techniques of propaganda. They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious, and his deeper emotions, and his physiology, even, and so making him actually love his slavery. I mean I think this is the danger that actually people may be, in some ways, happy under the new regime. But they will be happy in situations when they oughtn't be happy.

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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
2 months 1 week ago
Seeing therefore they are both [heat...

Seeing therefore they are both [heat and pain] immediately perceived at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is both the intense heat immediately perceived, and the pain; and consequently, that the intense heat immediately perceived, is nothing distinct from a particular sort of pain.

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Philonous to Hylas
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 4 days ago
Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress...

Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.

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Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. XIX, sec. 222
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 week ago
He that defers his charity 'till...

He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.

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Ornamenta Rationalia, [Β§55]
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
3 months 5 days ago
The principle of utility judges any...

The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

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Introduction, 1789 edition
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month ago
I am not a "culture critic"...

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

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Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 413
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
Power is not opposed to freedom....

Power is not opposed to freedom. It is precisely freedom that distinguishes power from violence or coercion.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 weeks ago
In order to have the stuff...

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 week ago
Leave the ass burdened with laws...

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

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Chapter 2, Verse 14
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