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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 2 weeks ago
The other part of the true...

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

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Of Humanity
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 1 week ago
The argument of this book is...

The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.

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Ch. 1. Why Are People?
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 4 weeks ago
Has not authority from time immemorial...

Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 1 day 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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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
It is our fatalest misery just...

It is our fatalest misery just now, not easily alterable, and yet urgently requiring to be altered, That no British man can attain to be a Statesman, or Chief of Workers, till he has first proved himself a Chief of Talkers: which mode of trial for a Worker, is it not precisely, of all the trials you could set him upon, the falsest and unfairest?

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 month 1 day ago
Our reverence for the nobility of...

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge, that Man, is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

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Ch.2, p. 132
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months 2 weeks ago
The people reign over the American...

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

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Chapter IV, Part I.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
Earth is a ball that is...

Earth is a ball that is over 12,000 kilometres in diameter, and if it were modelled into an object the size of a billiard ball, with all its surface unevenness reproduced exactly to scale, the model would be smoother than an ordinary billiard ball and the ocean would be an all but unnoticeable mist of dampness over 70 percent of its surface.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Whatever games are played with us,...

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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Illusions
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 2 weeks ago
One is ashamed to say how...

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

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Ch. 17
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David Pearce
David Pearce
3 weeks 3 days ago
The biology of suffering in intelligent...

The biology of suffering in intelligent agents is a deep underlying source of existential risk - and one that can potentially be overcome.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
Without will, no conflict: no tragedy...

Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 2 weeks ago
There are, first of all, two...

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
2 months 1 week ago
The mollusk's motto would be: one...

The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 4 days ago
All parties seem to be agreed...

All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither literary nor scientific information, and are moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 2 weeks ago
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine...

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

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Chapter III, Section 30, pg. 190
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 4 weeks ago
I found Randi likable and plausible;...

I found Randi likable and plausible; the only thing that bothered me was the sweeping and intense nature of his skepticism. He was obviously working from the premise that all paranormal phenomena, without exception, are fakes or delusions. He seemed to take to take it for granted that all of us - there were also two women present - shared his opinions, and he made jovial, disparaging remarks about psychics and other such weirdos. I began to get the uncomfortable feeling of a Jew who has accidentally walked into a Nazi meeting, or a Jehovah's Witness at a convention of militant atheists. As a supposedly scientific psychic investigator, Randi struck me as being oddly fixed in his opinions.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.

Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
Is a fixed income not a...

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

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(Bastiat and Carey), pp. 809-810.
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Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
3 months 6 days ago
Anything can be made to look...

Anything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed.

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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), p. 73
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
We are so lonely in life...

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
Decision making processes are aimed at...

Decision making processes are aimed at finding courses of action that are feasible or satisfactory in the light of multiple goals and constraints.

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p. 274.
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Boethius
Boethius
4 months 4 days ago
Thus, where'er the drift..

Thus, where'er the drift of hazardSeems most unrestrained to flow,Chance herself is reined and bitted,And the curb of law doth know.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is not murder which is...

It is not murder which is forgiven but the killer, his person as it appears in circumstances and intentions. The trouble with the Nazi criminals was precisely that they renounced voluntarily all personal qualities, as if nobody were left to be either punished or forgiven. They protested time and again that they had never done anything out of their own initiative, that they had no intentions whatsoever, good or bad, and that they only obeyed orders.

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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
2 months 1 week ago
The cry of equality pulls everyone...

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 2 weeks ago
I have lived through much, and...

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness. And then, on the top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps -- what more can the heart of man desire?

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Part 1, Chapter V
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
The Leaders have ever since gone...to...

The Leaders have ever since gone...to propagate the principles of French Levelling and confusion, by which no house is safe from its Servants, and no Officer from his Soldiers, and no State or constitution from conspiracy and insurrection. I will not enter into the baseness and depravity of the System they adopt; but one thing I will remark, that its great Object is not, (as they pretend to delude worthy people to their Ruin) the destruction of all absolute Monarchies, but totally to root out that thing called an Aristocrate or Noblemen and Gentleman.

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Letter to Lord Fitzwilliam (21 November 1791), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 451
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Will Durant
Will Durant
5 days ago
Children and fools speak the truth;...

Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.

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Ch. 1 : Our life begins
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 week ago
By electricity we have not been...

By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us.

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(p. 375)
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
In the true Literary Man there...

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;-guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 week ago
The media themselves are the avant-garde...

The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.

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p. 274
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 1 week ago
The unconscious is not just evil...

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

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The Practice of Psychotherapy, p. 364
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 month 1 week ago
The idea that the citizen owes...

The idea that the citizen owes loyalty to a country, a territory, a jurisdiction and all those who reside within it - the root assumption of democratic politics, and one that depends upon the nation as its moral foundation - that idea has no place in the minds and hearts of many who now call themselves citizens of European states.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Shall I tell you the secret...

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master at some point, and in that, I learn of him.

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Greatness
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
The hidden significance of these fables...

The hidden significance of these fables which is sometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and history, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they may be made to express a variety of truths. As if they were the skeletons of still older and more universal truths than any whose flesh and blood they are for the time made to wear. It is like striving to make the sun, or the wind, or the sea symbols to signify exclusively the particular thoughts of our day. But what signifies it? In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 weeks ago
Friends are not primarily absorbed in...

Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up - painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other - that is, in opposite directions. To transfer bodily all that belongs to one relationship into the other is blundering.

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 week 3 days ago
Because the President has undisputed authority...

Because the President has undisputed authority over foreign policy, President Biden... will be able to reinsert the United States into the international system. He will rejoin the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accords, he will go to NATO and reaffirm support for... our Asian allies, for Australia, for every other country that has depended on... American power, but... it's going to be extremely difficult to return to the kind of world that we assumed existed before 2016, because America does remain fundamentally divided. That bipartisan support for the liberal international order that we thought was extremely strong is no longer...

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
I live only because it is...

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
Just now
For we are mistaken…

For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 4 weeks ago
Religions are not true or false....
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 week ago
Advertising is the greatest art form...

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

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quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and...

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
All philosophers should end their days...

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
6 days ago
Curious, if we will reflect on...

Curious, if we will reflect on it, this of having no books. Except by what he could see for himself, or hear of by uncertain rumor of speech in the obscure Arabian Desert, he could know nothing. The wisdom that had been before him or at a distance from him in the world, was in a manner as good as not there for him. Of the great brother souls, flame-beacons through so many lands and times, no one directly communicates with this great soul. He is alone there, deep down in the bosom of the Wilderness; has to grow up so,-alone with Nature and his own Thoughts. But, from an early age, he had been remarked as a thoughtful man.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 3 weeks ago
I have greater confidence in my...

I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 2 weeks ago
The statesman who should attempt to...

The statesman who should attempt to direct people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 2 weeks ago
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine,...

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 4 weeks ago
Jung believed that he was proceeding...

Jung believed that he was proceeding scientifically, but most Freudians remain convinced that he was inventing his own underground realm, rather as Tolkien invented Middle Earth. There is at least an element of truth in this view.

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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
1 day ago
Because the Egoist is to...

Because the Egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the state except: "Get out of my sunshine!"

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Tucker 1907, p. 307
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