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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 weeks 1 day ago
The fine arts once divorcing themselves...

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

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Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 8.
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 3 weeks ago
The rise of new science in...

The rise of new science in the seventeenth century laid hold upon general culture in the next century. The enlightenment... testified to the widespread belief that at last light had dawned, that dissipation of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry was at hand, and the triumph of reason was assured -- for reason was counterpart in man of the laws of nature which science was disclosing. The reign of law in the natural world was to be followed by the reign of law in human affairs.

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William Whewell
William Whewell
1 day ago
[W]e can ascend to remote periods...

[W]e can ascend to remote periods by a chain of causes, but in none can we ascend to a 'beginning' of the chain.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 months 2 days ago
How it could come to pass...

How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of their sin and downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this earth, so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and discovered the charm of falsehood.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
4 months 2 weeks ago
Yes, to seek power….

Yes, to seek power that's vain and never grantedand for it to suffer hardship and endless pain:this is to heave and strain to push uphilla boulder, that still from the very top rolls backand bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field.

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Book III, lines 998-1002 (tr. Frank O. Copley)
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 4 weeks ago
Opinions differ as to the reasons...

Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets.

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René Descartes
René Descartes
4 months 1 week ago
So blind is the curiosity by...

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

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Rules for the Direction of the Mind: IV
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Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
3 weeks 6 days ago
Nowhere is there more constancy and...

Nowhere is there more constancy and more unanimity than among the French to subordinate that sex which they pretend to honor so highly.

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The Theory of Social Organization
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Averroes
Averroes
4 months 2 weeks ago
To master this instrument the religious...

To master this instrument the religious thinker must make a preliminary study of logic, just as the lawyer must study legal reasoning. This is no more heretical in the one case than in the other. And logic must be learned from the ancient masters, regardless of the fact that they were not Muslims.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 1 week ago
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate...

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 2 weeks ago
For the truth is that our...

For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.

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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
3 months 3 weeks ago
Asked where he came from, he...

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 63
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 1 week ago
As to why some are touched...

As to why some are touched by the law and others not, so that some receive and others scorn the offer of grace...[this is the] hidden will of God, Who, according to His own counsel, ordains such persons as He wills to receive and partake of the mercy preached and offered.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 month 2 weeks ago
Instead of water belonging to millions...

Instead of water belonging to millions of local communities, water too is to be controlled by five or six global water giants. These are recipes that use economic systems to appropriate for the few the base of survival of the majority.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 day ago
Note that Unitarianism….

Note that Unitarianism rejects concepts such as Hell, the Trinity, Original Sin, the infallability of the Bible, as well as claims that any one religion has a monopoly on theological truth and the Holy Spirit. At the same time, it accepts the notion that reason, rational thought, science, and philosophy can coexist with faith in God.

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Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Waterhouse (26 June 1822), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12, pp. 241-243.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 weeks 3 days ago
Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going...

Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. "What!" he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, "looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,"-"You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?"

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As quoted by Friedrich Jodl, "Goethe and Kant," The Monist (1901) f. Edward C. Hegeler, ed. Paul Carus, Vol. 11, p. 264. As translated from Professor Jodl's MS. by W. H. Carruth, of the University of Kansas.
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Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
2 weeks 2 days ago
But now persecution is good, because...

But now persecution is good, because it exists; every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the passions from whence it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors: when such laws are repealed, they will be cruelty and madness; till they are repealed, they are policy and caution.

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Peter Plymley's Letters (1808), Letter V
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months ago
Man is always separated from what...

Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
3 months 2 days ago
In the same way as philosophy...

In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics.

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Philosophy of Life, Lecture 1
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 months 1 week ago
Persecution is a bad and indirect...

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

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Section 25
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bell hooks
bell hooks
2 months 2 weeks ago
The process begins with the individual...

The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
5 months 2 days ago
According to one mode... nature is...

According to one mode... nature is thus denominated, viz. the first subject matter to every thing which contains in itself the principle of motion and mutation. But after another mode it is denominated form, which subsists according to definition: for as art is called that which subsists according to art, and that which is artificial; so likewise nature is both called that which is according to nature, and that which is natural. ...that which is composed from these is not nature, but consists from nature; as, for instance, man. And this is nature in a greater degree than matter: for every thing is then said to be, when it is form in energy... entelecheia, rather than when it is incapacity.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 2 weeks ago
And this in turn makes it...

And this in turn makes it plain that the Right Man problem is a problem of highly dominant people. Dominance is a subject of enormous importance to biologists and zoologists because the percentage of dominant animals - or human beings - seems to be amazingly constant. Bernard Shaw once asked the explorer H. M. Stanley how many other men could take over leadership of the expedition if Stanley himself fell ill; Stanley replied promptly: "One in twenty." "Is that exact or approximate?" asked Shaw. "Exact." And biological studies have confirmed this as a fact. For some odd reason, precisely five per cent - one in twenty - of any animal group are dominant - have leadership qualities. During the Korean War, the Chinese made the interesting discovery that if they separated out the dominant five per cent of American prisoners of war, and kept them in separate compound, the remaining ninety-five per cent made no attempt to escape.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
5 months 4 days ago
Man has an invincible inclination to...
Man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king. So long as it is able to deceive without injuring, that master of deception, the intellect, is free; it is released from its former slavery and celebrates its Saturnalia. It is never more luxuriant, richer, prouder, more clever and more daring.
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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 months 2 weeks ago
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing...

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets."

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62 Eudæmonidas
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 2 days ago
It is amusing to hear the...

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

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"Sources of Intolerance"
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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman
1 month 3 weeks ago
Statues are not about history. We...

Statues are not about history. We don't memorialize each piece of history. We memorialize things that we want to value and things that we want our children to walk by and say "This person embodied the values that I care about." Therefore, statues are about values not about history.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they...

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness).

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p. 55e
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 2 weeks ago
If we want a love which...

If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.

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p. 62
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 2 days ago
There is something feeble and a...

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.

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p. 219-220
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 4 weeks ago
Should it be proved that woman...

Should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than man, from whence does it follow that it is natural for her to labour to become still weaker than nature intended her to be? Arguments of this cast are an insult to common sense, and savour of passion. The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger, and though conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

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Ch. 3
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
2 days ago
A woman's body is a dark...

A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery;between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls,two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

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Odysseus, Book II, line 1017
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
4 months 2 weeks ago
All who say the same things...

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. ...let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds... it will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

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Montaigne, Essais, liv. III, chap. viii.-Faugère
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
Certainly it is correct to say:...

Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

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p. 75
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Democritus
Democritus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Making money is not without its...

Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 months 3 weeks ago
Choose a wife who is of...

Choose a wife who is of character, because that one is good who in the end is more respected.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 2 days ago
That is a long word: forever!...

That is a long word: forever!

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Act I.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 1 day ago
The universal hypocrisy has so entered...

The universal hypocrisy has so entered into the flesh and blood of all classes of our modern society, it has reached such a pitch that nothing in that way can rouse indignation. Hypocrisy in the Greek means "acting," and acting-playing a part-is always possible. Chapter XII, Conclusion-Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand Variant Translation: Hypocrisy with good reason means the same as acting, and anybody can pretend - act a part.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 2 weeks ago
An imaginary perfection is automatically at...

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it - neither higher nor lower.

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p. 240
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 months 3 weeks ago
With an ignorant man thou shouldst...

With an ignorant man thou shouldst not become a confederate and associate.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
“What man among you with 100...

“What man among you with 100 sheep, on losing one of them, will not leave the 99 behind in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he gets home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous ones who have no need of repentance.

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Luke 15: 4-7
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 3 days ago
As usurpation is the exercise of...

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to...

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Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 199
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 5 days ago
Society and conversation, therefore, are the...

Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment. Men of retirement and speculation, who are apt to sit brooding at home over either grief or resentment, though they may often have more humanity, more generosity, and a nicer sense of honour, yet seldom possess that equality of temper which is so common among men of the world.

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Section I, Chap. III.
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 4 weeks ago
An agreeable companion on a journey...

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

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Maxim 143
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 1 week ago
Mother love is stronger than the...

Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.

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Plotinus
Plotinus
4 months 2 weeks ago
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage,...

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

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Henry George
Henry George
Just now
The primary error of the advocates...

The primary error of the advocates of land nationalization is in their confusion of equal rights with joint rights, and in their consequent failure to realize the nature and meaning of economic rent... In truth the right to the use of land is not a joint or common right, but an equal right; the joint or common right is to rent, in the economic sense of the term. Therefore it is not necessary for the state to take land, it is only necessary for it to take rent. This taking by the commonalty of what is of common right, would of itself secure equality in what is of equal right - for since the holding of land could be profitable only to the user, there would be no inducement for any one to hold land that he could not adequately use, and monopolization being ended no one who wanted to use land would have any difficulty in finding it.

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Part III : Recantation, Ch. XI Compensation
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 4 weeks ago
Cartoons drove the photo back to...

Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Ye do err, not knowing the...

Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

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