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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 1 week ago
Do not allow your dreams of...

Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.

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Cisero
Cisero
1 month 3 weeks ago
And what can be more divine...

And what can be more divine than the exhalations of the earth, which affect the human soul so as to enable her to predict the future ? And could the hand of time evaporate such a virtue? Do you suppose you are talking of some kind of wine or salted meat ?

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 1 week ago
Very similar were the views expressed...

Very similar were the views expressed by Raymundus of Sabunde or Sabeyde, a Spaniard of the fifteenth century, and professor at Toulouse about the year 1437. In his theologia natural is, which he handled in a speculative spirit, he dealt with the Nature of things, and with the revelation of God in Nature and in the history of the God-man. He sought to prove to unbelievers the Being, the trinity, the incarnation, the life, and the revelation of God in Nature, and in the history of the God-man, basing his arguments on Reason. From the contemplation of Nature he rises to God; and in the same way he reaches morality from; observation of man's inner nature. This purer and simpler style must be set off against the other, if we are to do justice to the Scholastic theologians in their turn.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History Vol 3 1837 translated by ES Haldane and Francis H. Simson) first translated 1896 P. 91-92
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
How we hate this solemn Ego...

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 3 days ago
Instead of insanity eliminating the crime...

Instead of insanity eliminating the crime according to the original meaning of article 64,every crime and even every offense now carries within it, as a legitimate suspicion, but also as a right that may be claimed, the hypothesis of insanity, in any case of anomaly. And the sentence that condemns or acquits is not simply a judgement of guily, a legal decision that lays down punishment; it bears within it an assessment of normality and a technical prescription for a possible normalization Today the judge- magistrate or juror0 certainly does more than 'judge'.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
There must be a seed of...

There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out. Lacking that, analogous motives, honor, etc., are substituted. Parents are in the habit of looking out for the inclinations, for the talents and dexterity, perhaps for the disposition of their children, and not at all for their heart or character.

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Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 13
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John Rawls
John Rawls
1 month 1 week ago
Ideal legislators do not vote their...

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

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Chapter V, Section 43, p. 284
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John Dewey
John Dewey
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But the individual butterfly or earthquake...

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
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Surrender of individuality by the many...

Surrender of individuality by the many to someone who is taken to be a superindividual explains the retrograde movement of society. Dictatorships and totalitarian states, and belief in the inevitability of this or that result coming to pass are, strange as it may sound, ways of denying the reality of time and the creativeness of the individual.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 weeks ago
Around us knowledge has been extinguished,...

Around us knowledge has been extinguished, and recruitment of men of religion and men of law has ceased; that is to say, we have made Muslim society much more miserable, more disordered, more ignorant, and more barbarous than it had been before knowing us.

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Travail sur l'Algerie, Travels in Algeria p. 185
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
This species works intentionally on its...

This species works intentionally on its own destruction (by war). This, however, does not keep the rational creatures of such a constantly advancing culture, even in the midst of war, from promising to mankind in coming centuries an unequivocal prospect of bliss which will never end.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 185
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
To choose one sock from each...

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

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As quoted in Williams' Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics (2001), p. 498
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
To get up in the morning,...

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
There is always a best way...

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 week 2 days ago
There is nothing enduring, permanent, either...

There is nothing enduring, permanent, either in me or out of me, nothing but everlasting change. I know of no existence, not even of my own. I know nothing and am nothing. Images - pictures - only are, pictures which wander by without anything existing past which they wander, without any corresponding reality which they might represent, without significance and without aim. I myself am one of these images, or rather a confused image of these images. All reality is transformed into a strange dream, without a world of which the dream might be, or a mind that might dream it. Contemplation is a dream; thought, the source of all existence and of all that I fancied reality, of my own existence, my own capacities, is a dream of that dream.

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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 60
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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 1 week ago
Fools have a habit of believing...

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
For nature beats in perfect tune,...

For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.

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Wood-notes, no. II, st. 7
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William James
William James
1 month 1 week ago
Most of what happens actually is...

Most of what happens actually is forgotten.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The believing we do something when...

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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1859
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
1 week 2 days ago
In Germany, the judicial system has...

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is because the method of...

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

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Democritus
Democritus
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No power and no treasure can...

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing J. Owen, Evenings with the Skeptics, London, 1881, vol. 1, p. 149.
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 3 days ago
In the ceremonies of the public...

In the ceremonies of the public execution, the main character was the people, whose real and immediate presence was required for the performance.

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Chapter One, pp. 56
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 4 days ago
Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture...

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 123
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
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Society ... can afford to grant...

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

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p. 72
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Averroes
Averroes
1 month 4 weeks ago
The texts about the future life...

The texts about the future life fall into, since demonstrative scholars do not agree whether to take them in their apparent meaning or interpret them allegorically. Either is permissible. But it is inexcusable to deny the fact of a future life altogether.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
Fanaticism is the danger of the...

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

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The Future of Science (1959), p. 79; also in BBC The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 505
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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 weeks 5 days ago
When Darius offered him ten thousand...

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

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42 Alexander
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 month 4 days ago
We ourselves are the entities to...

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

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Macquarrie & Robinson translation
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
It makes a great difference in...

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

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p. 261
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Protagoras
Protagoras
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Man is the measure of all...

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

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As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
All human knowledge begins with intuitions,...

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 week ago
The first revolt is against the...

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 6 days ago
It built itself up endlessly, like...

It built itself up endlessly, like a chess game, and the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 4 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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p. 96
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Jesus
Jesus
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If those who lead you say,...

If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. (3) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

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(Luke 17:21)
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David Hume
David Hume
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Every thing in the world is...

Every thing in the world is purchased by labour.

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Part II, Essay 1: Of Commerce
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 week 3 days ago
They defend their errors as if...

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
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One capitalist always kills many...

One capitalist always kills many.

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Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 836.
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Horace
Horace
4 weeks 1 day ago
Think to yourself….

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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Book I, epistle iv, line 13-14
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
2 weeks 6 days ago
No evil is honorable; but death...

No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

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As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 3 days ago
But what then is this confrontation...

But what then is this confrontation below the language of reason? Where might this interrogation lead, following not reason in its horizontal becoming, but seeking to retrace in time this constant verticality, which, the length of Western culture, confronts it with what it is not, measuring it with its own extravagance?

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Preface to 1961 edition
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
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"They would say," he answered, "that...

"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."

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Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
We understand God by everything in...

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
Poetry teaches the enormous force of...

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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Parnassus (1874) Preface
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 week 3 days ago
The rich in all societies may...

The rich in all societies may be thrown into two classes. The first is of those who are powerful as well as rich, and conduct the operations of the vast political machine. The other is of those who employ their riches wholly in the acquisition of pleasure. As to the first sort, their continual care and anxiety, their toilsome days and sleepless nights, are next to proverbial. These circumstances are sufficient almost to level their condition to that of the unhappy majority; but there are other circumstances which place them in a far lower condition. Not only their understandings labour continually, which is the severest labour, but their hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all passions, by avarice, by ambition, by fear and jealousy. No part of the mind has rest. Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Pity, benevolence, friendship, are things almost unknown in high stations.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 days ago
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven...

Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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4:17 (KJV)
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 1 week 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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pp. 51-52
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 days ago
What do you say to the...

What do you say to the elections in the factory districts? Once again the proletariat has discredited itself terribly... [I]t cannot be denied that the increase of working-class voters has brought the Tories more than their mere additional percentage and has improved their relative position.

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Letter to Karl Marx (18 November 1868), quoted in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, 1846-1895 (1942), pp. 253-254
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