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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 3 weeks ago
Few persons care to study logic,...

Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men. We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.

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Illustrations of the Logic of Science First Paper - The Fixation of Belief", in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 month 2 weeks ago
Men do not sufficiently realise that...

Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on their refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 3 weeks 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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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 3 weeks ago
Not merely in the realm of...

Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid. Every speculative price-fixer who conscientiously directs attention to the significant march of modern philosophy, every Privatdocent, tutor, and student, every crofter and cottar goes further. Perhaps it would be untimely and ill-timed to ask them where they are going.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 4 weeks ago
The use of the intellect in...

The use of the intellect in the sciences whose primitive concepts as well as axioms are given by sensuous intuition is only logical, that is, by it we only subordinate cognitions to one another according to their relative universality conformably to the principle of contradiction, phenomena to more general phenomena, and consequences of pure intuition to intuitive axioms. But in pure philosophy, such as metaphysics, in which the use of the intellect in respect to principles is real, that is to say, where the primary concept of things and relations and the very axioms are given originally by the pure intellect itself, and not being intuitions do not enjoy immunity from error, the method precedes the whole science, and whatever is attempted before its precepts are thoroughly discussed and firmly established is looked upon as rashly conceived and to be rejected among vain instances of mental playfulness.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 4 days ago
As we divided natural philosophy in...

As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes, and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic, inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic, handleth the formal and final causes.

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Book VII, 3
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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 1 week ago
The more Lil' Kim distorted her...

The more Lil' Kim distorted her natural beauty to become a cartoonlike caricature of whiteness, the larger her success.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 1 week ago
Martyrs create faith, faith does not...

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
A man who belongs to some...

A man who belongs to some communist or revolutionary society wills certain concrete ends, which imply the will to freedom, and that freedom is willed in community. We will freedom for freedom's sake, and in and through the particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
The chief danger to philosophy is...

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

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Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 1 week ago
Emptiness is not a denial of...

Emptiness is not a denial of the proper but an affirmation of it.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 1 week ago
Its first ethical precept is the...

Its first ethical precept is the identity of means used and aims sought. The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and wellbeing. Unless this be the essential aim of revolution, violent social changes would have no justification. For external social alterations can be, and have been, accomplished by the normal processes of evolution. Revolution, on the contrary, signifies not mere external change, but internal, basic, fundamental change. That internal change of concepts and ideas, permeating ever-larger social strata, finally culminates in the violent upheaval known as revolution.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Another parable put he forth unto...

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

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13:24-30 (KJV)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
By virtue of depression, we recall...

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 4 days ago
Whilst shame keeps...
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
4 days ago
I discovered that what's really important...

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 weeks ago
Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral...

Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral or written, is to be taken and can only be taken in the sense of a means. Every system is only an expression or image of reason, and hence only an object of reason, an object which reason-a living power that procreates itself in new thinking beings-distinguishes from itself and posits as an object of criticism. Every system that is not recognized and appropriated as just a means, limits and warps the mind for it sets up the indirect and formal thought in the place of the direct, original and material thought.

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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 1 week ago
The great reformers of the world...

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organisation do not permit them to act. Christ, if He had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer. Peace be with the misanthropists! They have made a step in progress; the next will make them great philanthropists; they are divided but by a line. The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ. But do we see one woman who looks like a female Christ? or even like "the messenger before" her "face", to go before her and prepare the hearts and minds for her? To this will be answered that half the inmates of Bedlam begin in this way, by fancying that they are "the Christ." People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 2 days ago
The sociologist permits himself to see...

The sociologist permits himself to see only what is acceptable to his colleagues.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 week 4 days ago
The great tragedy of Science -...

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Presidential Address at the British Association, "Biogenesis and abiogenesis" (1870); later published in Collected Essays, Vol. 8, p. 229
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
1 month 1 week ago
Elements of empirical language are manipulated...

Elements of empirical language are manipulated in their rigidity, as if they were elements of a true and revealed language. The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 1 week ago
The Kropotkins, the Perovskayas, the Breshkovskayas,...

The Kropotkins, the Perovskayas, the Breshkovskayas, and hosts of others repudiated wealth and station and refused to serve King Mammon. They went among the people, not to lift them up but themselves to be lifted up, to be instructed, and in return to give themselves wholly to the people. That accounts for the heroism, the art, the literature of Russia, the unity between the people, the mujik and the intellectual. That to some extent explains the literature of all European countries, the fact that the Strindbergs, the Hauptmanns, the Wedekinds, the Brieux, the Mirbeaus, the Steinlins and Rodins have never dissociated themselves from the people.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months ago
It is easy to see that,...

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

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Book Three, Chapter IX.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 weeks ago
I considerd a general War against...

I considerd a general War against Jacobins and Jacobinism, as the only possible chance of saving Europe, (and England as included in Europe) from a truly frightful revolution. ... It is my Protest against the delusion, by which some have been taught to look upon this Jacobin contest at home as an ordinary party squabble about place or Patronage; and to regard this Jacobin War abroad as a common War about Trade, or Territorial Boundaries, or about a political Balance of power among Rival or jealous States.

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Letter to the Duke of Portland (29 September 1793), quoted in P. J. Marshall and John A. Woods (eds.)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
The foundation of irreligious criticism is:...

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.

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Plato
Plato
3 months 3 weeks ago
So when the universe was quickened...

So when the universe was quickened with soul, God was well pleased; and he bethought him to make it yet more like its type. And whereas the type is eternal and nought that is created can be eternal, he devised for it a moving image of abiding eternity, which we call time. And he made days and months and years, which are portions of time; and past and future are forms of time, though we wrongly attribute them also to eternity. For of eternal Being we ought not to say 'it was', 'it shall be', but 'it is' alone: and in like manner we are wrong in saying 'it is' of sensible things which become and perish; for these are ever fleeting and changing, having their existence in time.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
A man is a god in...

A man is a god in ruins.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
If you would convince a man...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see.

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Let them see. Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 222
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 3 weeks ago
While all these are disturbed and...

While all these are disturbed and divided by the multifarious objects to which their thoughts must be applied, the Philosopher pursues, in solitary silence and in unbroken concentration of mind, his single and undeviating course towards the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; and that is his daily labour, to which others can only resort at times for rest and refreshment after toil.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is said that "being" is...

It is said that "being" is the most universal and the emptiest concept. As such it resists every attempt at definition. Nor does this most universal and thus indefinable concept need any definition. Everybody uses it constantly and also already understands what is meant by it.

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Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 1 week ago
Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked...

Philip being arbitrator betwixt two wicked persons, he commanded one to fly out of Macedonia and the other to pursue him.

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William James
William James
2 months 3 weeks ago
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually...

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

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To W. Lutoslawski, 5/6/1906
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
I am as desirous of being...

I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 1 week ago
A farewell does not dilute the...

A farewell does not dilute the presence of the past; it may make an even deeper presence.

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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 4 weeks ago
This life affords no solid satisfaction,...

This life affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of having done well, and the hopes of another life.

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Letter to Anthony Collins (23 August 1704), in The Works of John Locke, Vol. X (London, 1823), p. 298; quoted by William Julius Mickle in Voltain in the Shades (London, 1770), p. 7
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
The weapon of criticism obviously cannot...

The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes a material force when it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses when it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem, when it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp things by the root, but for man the root is man himself. The clear proof of the radicalism of German theory, and hence of its political energy, is that it proceeds from the decisive positive abolition of religion.

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As quoted from David McLellan, Marx before Marxism, MacMillan, 1980, p. 150.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 2 weeks ago
A Covenant not to defend my...

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

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The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 69
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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 4 weeks ago
By liberty, then, we can only...

By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Good health is the best weapon...

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 weeks ago
The recognition of the light of...

The recognition of the light of reality within the darkness of abstraction is a contradiction - both the affirmation and the negation of the real at one and the same time. The new philosophy, which thinks the concrete not in an abstract but a concrete way, which acknowledges the real in its reality - that is, in a way corresponding to the being of the real as true, which elevates it into the principle and object of philosophy - is consequently the truth of the Hegelian philosophy, indeed of modern philosophy as a whole.

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Part III, Section 31
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 weeks ago
Give us grace and strength to...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 weeks ago
An event has happened, upon which...

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 306
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1 week 1 day ago
I believe most people are aware...

I believe most people are aware of periods in their lives when they seem to be "in grace" and other periods when they feel "out of grace," even though they may use different words to describe these states. In the first happy condition, one seems to carry all one's tasks before one lightly, as if borne along on a great tide; and in the opposite state one can hardly tie a shoe-string. It is true that a large part of life consists in learning a technique of tying the shoe-string, whether one is in grace or not. But there are techniques of living too; there are even techniques in the search for grace.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
An intellectual is someone whose mind...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 weeks ago
Never have so many been manipulated...

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

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Chapter 3 (pp. 19-20)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
The governors of the world believe,...

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 3 weeks ago
Man is the higher Sense of...

Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards Heaven.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 1 week ago
Ira festuca est, odium trabes est....

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

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58 Alternate versions: Anger is a stem, hate is a trunk. Anger is the mote, hate is the beam.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 weeks ago
Our psychological experiences are all equally...

Our psychological experiences are all equally facts. There is nothing to choose between them. No psychological experience is "truer," so far as we are concerned, than any other. For even if one should correspond more closely to things in themselves as perceived by some hypothetical non-human being, it would be impossible for us to discover which it was. Science is no "truer" than common sense, or lunacy, or art, or religion. It permits us to organize our experience profitably; but tells us nothing about the real nature of the world to which our experiences are supposed to refer. From the internal reality, by which I mean the totality of psychological experiences, it actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences - the experiences of sense.

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"One and Many," p. 5-6
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 week 2 days ago
We share this planet, our home,...

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need. Restraint in resource use and living within nature's limits are preconditions for social justice. The commons are where justice and sustainability converge, where ecology and equity meet. The survival of pastures and forests as community property, or of a common good like a stable ecosystem, is only possible with social organizations with checks and controls on the use of resources built into their principles. The breakdown of a community, with the associated erosion of concepts of joint ownership and responsibility, can trigger the degradation of common resources.

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