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When you make the two into...

When you make the two into one, you will become children of Adam, and when you say, 'Mountain, move from here!' it will move.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 1 week ago
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper...

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.

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IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Placing your stick at the end...

Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

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W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 4 days ago
Pass by us, and forgive us...

Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness.

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Part 4, Chapter 5
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 4 weeks ago
A great prison structure was planned,...

A great prison structure was planned, whose different levels would correspond exactly to the levels of the centralized administration. The scaffold, where the body of the tortured criminal had been exposed to the ritually manifested force of the sovereign, the punitive theatre in which the representation of punishment was permanently available to the social body, was replaced by a great enclosed, complex and hierarchized structure that was integrated into the very body of the state apparatus.

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Chapter Three, The Gentle Way in Punishment
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 days ago
The Communist Party has one objective:...

The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

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Hugo, Act 5, sc. 3
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
I know well what I am...

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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Book III, Ch. 9
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month ago
Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge...

Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things about me which no one knew of. I wanted to find out whether other people had undergone similar experiences. I never succeeded in discovering so much as a trace of them in others. As a result, I had the feeling that I was either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 5 days ago
If a man walk in the...

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

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p. 485
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 weeks ago
To err is human also in...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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G 30
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Cornel West
Cornel West
1 month 4 weeks ago
From whence are these "rights of...

From whence are these "rights of individuals" derived, and why should we care? Unless we presume the existence of some greater power that determines what is good, isn't it arbitrary to posit that human survival is more important than private property rights, an equally artificially construed concept? Isn't it arbitrary to assume that some sort of equality is preferable to a system where, say, the poor are assumed to have bad karma? If these 'rights of individuals' are derived only from shared humanity, then do 'individuals' (a thoroughly meaningless term, by the way), begin to lose them when they act inhumanely? And isn't it totally arbitrary to grant rights to humans rather than other creatures anyway?

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Lecture in New Haven, On Constructed Rights
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 days ago
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee...

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.

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The Rhodora
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 3 days ago
All men are stuck in a...

All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 2 days ago
In order to touch the heart...

In order to touch the heart and gain the confidence, the assent, the adhesion, and the co-operation of the illiterate legions of the proletariat - and the vast majority of proletarians unfortunately still belong in this category - it is necessary to begin to speak to those workers not of the general sufferings of the international proletariat as a whole but of their particular, daily, altogether private misfortunes. It is necessary to speak to them of their own trade and the conditions of their work in the specific locality where they live; of the harsh conditions and long hours of their daily work, of the small pay, the meanness of their employer, the high cost of living, and how impossible it is for them properly to support and bring up a family.

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Founding of the Workers' International
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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 weeks 4 days ago
Even at the outset, the total...

Even at the outset, the total and massive quality has its uniqueness; even when vague and undefined, it is just that which it is and not anything else. If the perception continues, discrimination inevitably sets in. Attention must move, and as it moves, parts, members, emerge from the background. And if attention moves in a unified direction instead of wandering, it is controlled by the pervading qualitative unity; attention is controlled by it because it operates within it.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 4 days ago
It is forbidden...
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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
2 weeks 2 days ago
People have committed suicide because of...

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

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p. 30
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 4 weeks ago
The criticism of the reformers was...

The criticism of the reformers was directed not so much at the weakness or cruelty of those in authority, as at a bad economy of power.

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Chapter Two, pp.. 79
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 days ago
New technological environments are commonly cast...

New technological environments are commonly cast in the molds of the preceding technology out of the sheer unawareness of their designers.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
1 month 3 weeks ago
The capacity to reason is a...

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
6 months 1 week ago
Fundamental principles

The source of totalitarianism is a dogmatic attachment to the official word: the lack of laughter, of ironic detachment. An excessive commitment to Good may in itself become the greatest Evil: real Evil is any kind of fanatical dogmatism, especially exerted in the name of supreme Good... Consider only Mozart's Don Giovanni at the end of the opera, when he is confronted with the following choice: if he confesses his sins, he can still achieve salvation; if he persists, he will be damned forever. From this viewpoint of the pleasure principle, the proper thing to do would be to renounce his past, but he does not, he persists in his Evil, although he knows that by persisting he will be damned forever. Paradoxically, with his final choice of Evil, he acquires the status of an ethical hero - that is, of someone who is guided by fundamental principles beyond the pleasure principle and not just by the search for pleasure or material gain.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
Bad times, hard times, this is...

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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80:8
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 5 days ago
Therefore only an utterly senseless person...

Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 5 days ago
Strange incongruities....

Strange incongruities must ever perplex those, who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
To be or not to be...Neither...

To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 5 days ago
The Revolution and Hanover succession had...

The Revolution and Hanover succession had been objects of the highest veneration to the old Whigs. They thought them not only proofs of the sober and steady spirit of liberty which guided their ancestors; but of their wisdom and provident care of posterity.-The modern Whigs have quite other notions of these events and actions. They do not deny that Mr. Burke has given truly the words of the acts of parliament which secured the succession, and the just sense of them. They attack not him but the law.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
There is no body but eats...

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 1 day ago
Man cannot do without beauty, and...

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 6 days ago
Superstition is to religion…

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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"Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition," Treatise on Toleration, 1763
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 days ago
I exist, that is all, and...

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 5 days ago
The rich in all societies may...

The rich in all societies may be thrown into two classes. The first is of those who are powerful as well as rich, and conduct the operations of the vast political machine. The other is of those who employ their riches wholly in the acquisition of pleasure. As to the first sort, their continual care and anxiety, their toilsome days and sleepless nights, are next to proverbial. These circumstances are sufficient almost to level their condition to that of the unhappy majority; but there are other circumstances which place them in a far lower condition. Not only their understandings labour continually, which is the severest labour, but their hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all passions, by avarice, by ambition, by fear and jealousy. No part of the mind has rest. Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Pity, benevolence, friendship, are things almost unknown in high stations.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 days ago
It is for the sake of...

It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!

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Aegistheus, Act 2
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 1 week ago
The means employed by Nature to...

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

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Fourth Thesis
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the...

Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
Fortunate those who, born before science,...

Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 days ago
Printing will tell you such useful...

Printing will tell you such useful things and such interesting things that not being able to read would be as bad as not being able to see.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 4 days ago
And, oddly enough, even at times...

And, oddly enough, even at times when the current style permitted a treatment of the less epileptic aspects of religion, no fully adequate rendering of the contemplative life was ever achieved in the plasdc arts of Christendom. The peace that passes all understanding was often sung and spoken; it was hardly ever painted or carved. Thus, in the writings of St. Bernard, of Albertus Magnus, of Eckhart and Tauler and Ruysbroeck one may find passages that express very clearly the nature and significance of mystical contemplation. But the saints who figure in medieval painting and sculpture tell us next to nothing about this anticipation of the beatific vision. There are no equivalents of those Far Eastern Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who incarnate, in stone and paint, the experience of ultimate reality.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 weeks 1 day ago
So long as it is not...

So long as it is not possible to produce so much that there is enough for all, with more left over for expanding the social capital and extending the forces of production - so long as this is not possible, there must always be a ruling class directing the use of society's productive forces, and a poor, oppressed class. How these classes are constituted depends on the stage of development.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 2 days ago
I bow before the authority of...

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
1 month 3 weeks ago
The essence of the belief that...

The essence of the belief that bats have experience is that there is something that it is like to be a bat. Now we know that most bats (the microchiroptera, to be precise) perceive the external world primarily by sonar, or echolocation. ... But bat sonar, though clearly a form of perception, is not similar in its operation to any sense that we possess, and there is no reason to suppose that it is subjectively like anything we can experience or imagine. This appears to create difficulties for the notion of what it is like to be a bat.

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Friedrich Schelling
Friedrich Schelling
1 month 5 days ago
Countless attempts have been made to...

Countless attempts have been made to no avail to construct a continuity from the supreme principle of the intellectual world to the finite world. The oldest and most frequent of these attempts is well known: the principle of emanation, according to which the outflowings from the godhead, in gradual increments and detachment from the ordinary source, losing their divine perfection until, in the end, they pass into the opposite (matter, privation), just as light is finally confined by darkness.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 4 days ago
Consumption is also immediately production, just...

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

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Introduction, p. 10.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 5 days ago
I may as well say at...

I may as well say at once that I do not distinguish between inference and deduction. What is called induction appears to me to be either disguised deduction or a mere method of making plausible guesses.

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Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. II: Symbolic Logic, p. 11
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 1 week ago
In England, success in the profession...

In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been eminent in that profession?

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Chapter I, Part III, p. 824.
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 day ago
Let a fool hold….

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 weeks 3 days ago
An absolute power would be one...

An absolute power would be one that never becomes apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying. Power shines in its own absence.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 1 week ago
How many people ruin themselves by...

How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility? What pleases these lovers of toys is not so much the utility, as the aptness of the machines which are fitted to promote it. All their pockets are stuffed with little conveniences. They contrive new pockets, unknown in the clothes of other people, in order to carry a greater number. They walk about loaded with a multitude of baubles, in weight and sometimes in value not inferior to an ordinary Jew's-box, some of which may sometimes be of some little use, but all of which might at all times be very well spared, and of which the whole utility is certainly not worth the fatigue of bearing the burden.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 4 days ago
I was seeing what Adam had...

I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 5 days ago
Forgetting when God does it in...

Forgetting when God does it in relation to sin, is the opposite of creating, since to create is to bring forth from nothing and to forget is to take back into nothing. What is hidden from my eyes, that I have never seen; but what is hidden behind my back, that I have seen. The one who loves forgives in this way; he forgives, he forgets, he blots out the sin, in love he turns toward the one he forgives; but when he turns toward him, he of course, cannot see what is lying behind his back.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
What a judgment upon the living,...

What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!

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