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Jesus
3 months ago
For I came to cause division,...

For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 Indeed, a man's enemies will be those of his own household.

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10:35,36, New World Translation
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
3 months 1 week ago
Well, which is the most rational...

Well, which is the most rational theory about these ten millions of species? Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations? or is it most likely that, by continual modifications due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still?

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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 3 weeks ago
This is the ideal world –...

This is the ideal world, a perfect world of equality, fraternity, harmony, welfare, and justice.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 1 week ago
We have not made the Revolution,...

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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Act II.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 5 days ago
Chance seldom interferes....
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Proclus
Proclus
3 months 3 weeks ago
But Hermotimus, the Colophonian, rendered more...

But Hermotimus, the Colophonian, rendered more abundant what was formerly published by Eudoxus and Theætetus, and invented a multitude of elements, and wrote concerning some geometrical places. But Philippus the Mendæan, a disciple of Plato, and by him inflamed in the mathematical disciplines, both composed questions, according to the institutions of Plato, and proposed as the object of his enquiry whatever he thought conduced to the Platonic philosophy.

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Ch. IV.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
2 months ago
Goodness is achieved not in a...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

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Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 months ago
A child educated only at school...

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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"Why I Am Not a Marxist" "Modern Monthly: Volume: 9″ (April 1935); Page: 77-79.
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
2 months 4 weeks ago
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better...

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
5 months 4 days ago
Art, at least, teaches us that...

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 2 weeks ago
And at once I saw with...

And at once I saw with great clarity that human beings possess two bodies. One is the physical body, the other -- just as real, just as self-contained -- is the emotional body. Like the physical body, the emotional body reaches a certain level of growth, and then stops. But it stops rather sooner than the physical body. So most of us possess the emotional body of a retarded adolescent.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
I must confess that I am...

I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

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Letter to Rudolf Carnap, June 21, 1962
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
1 month 1 day ago
Copernicus never discusses matters of religion...

Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. ... He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

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Edward Said
Edward Said
2 months 2 weeks ago
Theory is taught so as to...

Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 3 weeks ago
Our liberty is neither Greek nor...

Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English. It has a character of its own,-a character which has taken a tinge from the sentiments of the chivalrous ages, and which accords with the peculiarities of our manners and of our insular situation. It has a language, too, of its own, and a language singularly idiomatic, full of meaning to ourselves, scarcely intelligible to strangers.

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History', The Edinburgh Review (May 1828), quoted in The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. I (1860), pp. 252-253
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 3 days ago
It is so characteristic, that just...

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
3 months 1 week ago
Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king,...

Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man's only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
3 months 1 week ago
The last thing abandoned by a...

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt. France Before The Consulate, Chapter I: "How the Republic was ready to accept a master", in Memoir, Letters, and Remains, Vol I (1862), p. 266 Variant translation: The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the crowd who dictates the language, and the crowd relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned.

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As quoted in The Viking book of Aphorisms : A Personal Selection (1962) by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306. Variant translation: The last thing that a party abandons is its language.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
4 months 3 days ago
The domination of the public way...

The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 2 weeks ago
The characteristic of the really great...

The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.

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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
2 weeks 4 days ago
Doctors try to get rid of...

Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
3 weeks 1 day ago
A great fortune…

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. VI, line 5
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 1 week ago
Custom, then, is the great guide...

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation. Variant (perhaps a paraphrase of this passage): It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 6 days ago
For those who want 'to change...

For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2 weeks 4 days ago
For us in Russia, communism is...

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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BBC Radio broadcast, Russian service, as quoted in The Listener
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 months 1 week ago
If there is no…

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?

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Quoted in M. M. Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, trans. R. W. Rotsel (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1973) p. 70
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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 3 weeks ago
The superior man, when resting...

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 1 week ago
Honest work is much better than...

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 week 1 day ago
Gather your strength and listen; the...

Gather your strength and listen; the whole heart of man is a single outcry. Lean against your breast to hear it; someone is struggling and shouting within you. It is your duty every moment, day and night, in joy or in sorrow, amid all daily necessities, to discern this Cry with vehemence or restraint, according to your nature, with laughter or with weeping, in action or in thought, striving to find out who is imperiled and cries out. And how we may all be mobilized together to free him.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 week ago
Paper is poverty,... it is only...

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

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Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (27 May 1788) ME 7:36
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
To those who inquire as to...

To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics, the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machines, the travelling from place to place, and the victory over foreign nations, whether in war or commerce. ... The reasoning faculty itself is generally conceived, by those who urge its cultivation, as merely a means for the avoidance of pitfalls and a help in the discovery of rules for the guidance of practical life.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 1 week ago
Freedom and whores are the most...

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. .

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Act IV
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 4 weeks ago
I do not think that the...

I do not think that the dancing and singing of even little children can be explained wholly on the basis of unlearned and unformed responses to then existing objective conditions. Clearly there must be something in the present to evoke happiness. But the act is expressive only a there is in it a unison of something stored from past experience, something therefore generalized, with present conditions. In the case of expressions of happy children the marriage of past values and present incidents takes place easily; there are few obstructions to be overcome, few wounds to heal, few conflicts to resolve. With maturer persons, the reverse is the case. Accordingly the achievement of complete unison is rare; but when it occurs it is so on a deeper level and with a fuller content of meaning. And then, even though after long incubation and after precedent pangs of labor, the final expression may issue with the spontaneity of the cadenced speech or rhythmic movement of happy childhood.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 1 week ago
The object of this Essay is...

The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress reflection and the experience of life. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
5 months 4 days ago
O light! This is the cry...

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. Return to Tipasa (1954) Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 months 3 days ago
There is no foreign land; it...

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

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Pt. II, ch. III.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 1 week ago
This art is music. It stands...

This art is music. It stands quite apart from all the others. In it we do not recognize the copy, the repetition, of any Idea of the inner nature of the world. Yet it is such a great and exceedingly fine art, its effect on man's innermost nature is so powerful, and it is so completely and profoundly understood by him in his innermost being as an entirely universal language, whose distinctness surpasses even that of the world of perception itself, that in it we certainly have to look for more than that.

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Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation: Second Aspect, as translated by Eric F. J. Payne, 1958
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 1 week ago
It is in vain to dream...

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

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August 30, 1856
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 days ago
We must suffer to the end,...

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
4 weeks ago
No man lives without jostling and...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
4 months 3 weeks ago
Ten thousand do not turn the...

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 3 days ago
One does not inhabit a country;...

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.

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Edward Said
Edward Said
2 months 2 weeks ago
When one learns something one first...

When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.

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"Vico: Autodidact and Humanist," The Centennial Review, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1967), p. 340
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 2 weeks ago
Imagine a book of unexplained mysteries...

Imagine a book of unexplained mysteries written by a contemporary of Shakespeare. It might include the mystery of the falling stars that sweep through the sky foretelling disaster; the mystery of the Kraken, the giant sea devil with 50-foot tentacles; the mystery of monster bones, sometimes found in caves or on beaches. Such a book would be a curious mixture of truth and absurdity, fact and legend. We would all feel superior as we turned its pages and murmured: "Of course, they didn't know about comets and giant squids and dinosaurs." If this book should happen to find its way into the hands of our remote descendants, they may smile pityingly and say: "It's incredible to think that they knew nothing about epsilon fields or multiple psychic feedback or cross gravitational energies. They didn't even know about the ineluctability of time." But let us hope that such a descendant is in a charitable mood, and might add: "And yet they managed to ask a few of the right questions."

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
3 months 1 week ago
There are at the present time...

There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

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Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski
1 month ago
The history of utopias is no...

The history of utopias is no less fascinating than the history of metallurgy or of chemical engineering.

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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
1 month 3 days ago
The fact of being within capital...

The fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 2 weeks ago
Truths dead and forgotten long ago,...

Truths dead and forgotten long ago, conceptions of the world and its people, covered with mould, even during the times of our grandmothers, are being hammered into the heads of our young generation.

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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 1 week ago
He is happy, whose circumstances suit...

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 5 days ago
The potential of any new technology...

The potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors.

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