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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

One may discover the root of a Hindoo religion in his own private history, when, in the silent intervals of the day or night, he does sometimes inflict on himself like austerities with a stern satisfaction.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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Meijer for entrapping and arresting a disabled employee

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Meijer

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An autistic 16 year old was taking food from the deli over 3 months. They tracked how much he took, and when he had crossed a certain threshold, the had him arrested. There was another employee who was also part of the entrapment scheme.

The general vibe around the boycott is, these are poor workers, scraping by on minimum level wages. The multi billion dollar corporation follows the law absolutely when it comes to you, but we all know it's not so cut and dry at the top.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

We are beggars: this is true.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 03:51

Nearly allied to justice are the virtues of beneficence, compassion, gratitude, piety, and friendship.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

I will first discuss images according to the Law of Moses, and then according to the gospel. And I say at the outset that according to the Law of Moses no other images are forbidden than an image of God which one worships. A crucifix, on the other hand, or any other holy image is not forbidden. Heigh now! you breakers of images, I defy you to prove the opposite!

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. … Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. John 20:22-23 (KJV)

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. Variants: If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 00:01

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 03:32

Religious law makes it illegal for the ignorant to drink wine, but intelligence makes it legal for the intellectual.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
One common false conclusion is that because someone is truthful and upright towards us he is spreading the truth. Thus the child believes his parents' judgements, the Christian believes the claims of the church's founders. Likewise, people do not want to admit that all those things which men defended with the sacrifice of their lives and happiness in earlier centuries were nothing but errors.
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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

For by the hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not [merely] a part of man, was made in the likeness of God. For by the hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not [merely] a part of man, was made in the likeness of God. Against Heresies: Book V, Ch. Chapter VI.—God will bestow salvation upon the whole nature of man, consisting of body and soul in close union, since the Word took it upon Him, and adorned with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, of whom our bodies are, and are termed, the temples.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53

But he, with these burthens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India; and this in the course of about ten years, a shorter time than has been occupied (even by writers who had no other employment) in the production of almost any other historical work of equal bulk, and of anything approaching to the same amount of reading and research. And to this is to be added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of whom, myself, he exerted an amount of labour, care, and perseverance rarely, if ever, employed for a similar purpose, in endeavouring to give, according to his own conception, the highest order of intellectual education.

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Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 00:33

Men resign themselves to their position should it ever occur to them to question it; and since all may view themselves as assigned their vocation, everyone is held to be equally fated and equally noble in the eyes of providence.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
What! the inventors of ancient civilisations, the first makers of tools and tape lines, the first builders of vehicles, ships, and houses, the first observers of the laws of the heavens and the multiplication tables is it contended that they were entirely different from the inventors and observers of our own time, and superior to them? And that the first slow steps forward were of a value which has not been equalled by the discoveries we have made with all our travels and circumnavigations of the earth?
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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. 19:8-9 (KJV)

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

Great novelists are philosopher novelists, that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

Que sais-je? What do I know? Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond de Sebonde (tr. Cotton, 1685) What can I tell?

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

I think no virtue goes with size; The reason of all cowardice Is, that men are overgrown, And, to be valiant, must come down To the titmouse dimension.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 00:01

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting?

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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 01:55

One of the principal reasons that diverts those who are entering upon this knowledge so much from the true path which they should follow, is the fancy that they take at the outset that good things are inaccessible, giving them the name great, lofty, elevated, sublime. This destroys everything. I would call them low, common, familiar: these names suit it better; I hate such inflated expressions.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. 5:22, King James Version.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land. In every age of the world, there has been a leading nation, one of a more generous sentiment, whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called, by the men of the moment, chimerical and fantastic. Which should be that nation but these States? Which should lead that movement, if not New England? Who should lead the leaders, but the Young American?

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you. So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles. Matthew 6:33-34, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits ... A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

On est ce qu'on veut. A man is what he wills himself to be.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 20:45

With regard to the abuse of authority, this also may come about in two ways. First, when what is ordered by an authority is opposed to the object for which that authority was constituted (if, for example, some sinful action is commanded or one which is contrary to virtue, when it is precisely for the protection and fostering of virtue that authority is instituted). In such a case, not only is there no obligation to obey the authority, but one is obliged to disobey it, as did the holy martyrs who suffered death rather than obey the impious commands of tyrants. Secondly, when those who bear such authority command things which exceed the competence of such authority; as, for example, when a master demands payment from a servant which the latter is not bound to make, and other similar cases. In this instance the subject is free to obey or disobey.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

What does it mean to have a god? or, what is God? Answer: A god means that from which we are to expect all good and to which we are to take refuge in all distress, so that to have a God is nothing else than to trust and believe Him from the [whole] heart; as I have often said that the confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. Luke 11:23 (KJV)

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Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 04:29

Be bold to look towards God and say, "Use me henceforward for whatever you want; I am of one mind with you; I am yours; I refuse nothing that seems good to you; lead me where you will; wrap me in what clothes you will."

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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