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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 3 weeks ago
The best doctor is the one...

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

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As quoted in Selected Thoughts from the French: XV Century - XX Century, with English Translations (1913) by James Raymond Solly, p. 67
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 3 weeks ago
God never sends evils…

God never sends evils.

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Ch. 12
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
Ideas should be neutral. But man...

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 2 weeks ago
What should we gain by a...

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

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p. 26
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 2 weeks ago
The history of science, like the...

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities - perhaps the only one - in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.

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Ch. 1 "Science : Conjectures and Refutations"
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
2 months 1 day ago
Hope is the only good that...

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

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A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is evident that this, among...

It is evident that this, among many other of the purposes of my father's scheme of education, could not have been accomplished if he had not carefully kept me from having any great amount of intercourse with other boys. He was earnestly bent upon my escaping not only the ordinary corrupting influence which boys exercise over boys, but the contagion of vulgar modes of thought and feeling; and for this he was willing that I should pay the price of inferiority in the accomplishments which schoolboys in all countries chiefly cultivate. The deficiencies in my education were principally in the things which boys learn from being turned out to shift for themselves, and from being brought together in large numbers.

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(p. 35)
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nature made women mature early and...

Nature made women mature early and had them demand gentle and polite treatment from men, so that they would find themselves imperceptibly fettered by a child due to their own magnanimity; and they would find themselves brought, if not quite to morality itself, then at least to that which cloaks it, moral behavior, which is the preparation and introduction to morality.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), pages 219-220
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
5 days ago
Whether we take these characters then,...

Whether we take these characters then, or such minor ones as those which are derivable from the proportional length of the spines in the cervical vertebrae, and the like, there is no doubt whatsoever as to the marked difference between Man and the Gorilla; but there is as little, that equally marked differences, of the very same order, obtain between the Gorilla and the lower apes.

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Ch.2, p. 92
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
1 month 6 days ago
Not to be loved is a...

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

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No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 2 weeks ago
All these present struggles revolve around...

All these present struggles revolve around the question: Who are we? They are a refusal of these abstractions, of economic and ideological state violence, which ignore who we are individually, and also a refusal of a scientific or administrative inquisition which determines who one is.

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p. 781
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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 3 weeks ago
The heights of popularity and patriotism...

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny ; flattery to treachery ; standing armies to arbitrary government ; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

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Part I, Essay 8: Of Public Credit (This appears as a footnote in editions H to P. Other editions include it in the body of the text, and some number it Essay 9.)
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 3 days ago
In refusing to face evil, Sinclair...

In refusing to face evil, Sinclair has gained nothing and lost a great deal; the Buddhist scripture expenses it: those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead.

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Chapter Three, The Romantic Outsider
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
1 month 1 week ago
The concept of guilt is found...

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: ... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.

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p. 178
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 1 week ago
Sociology does not 'negate' philosophy, in...

Sociology does not 'negate' philosophy, in the sense of taking over the hidden content of philosophy and carrying it into social theory and practice, but sets itself up as a realm apart from philosophy, with a province and truth of its own. Comte is rightly held to be the inaugurator of this separation between philosophy and sociology.

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P. 375
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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 1 week ago
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and...

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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Ch. 2, sect. 2
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
1 month 1 week ago
The primary meaning of the words...

The primary meaning of the words "modern," "modernity," with which recent times have baptised themselves, brings out very sharply that feeling of "the height of time" which I am at present analysing. "Modern" is what is "in the fashion, "that is to say, the new fashion or modification which has arisen over against the old traditional fashions used in the past. The word "modern" then expresses a consciousness of a new life, superior to the old one, and at the same time an imperative call to be at the height of one's time. For the "modern" man, not to be "modern" means to fall below the historic level.

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Chap. III: The Height Of The Times
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
1 month 5 days ago
The aim of jazz is the...

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

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Perennial Fashion - Jazz (1978), Prisms, p. 129, as translated by Samuel Weber and Shierry Weber
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 2 weeks ago
I was still blind, but twinkling...

I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

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As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 month 1 week ago
The eyes see only what the...

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin‎ (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 2 weeks ago
Every beloved object is the center...

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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Fragment No. 51; Jeder geliebte Gegenstand ist der Mittelpunkt eines Paradieses. Variant translations:
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
The most dangerous thing you can...

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

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Book I, Chapter 2, "Some Objections"
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 3 weeks ago
Dear rulers ... I maintain that...

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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letter to the German rulers (1524), as quoted in The History of Compulsory Education in New England, John William Perrin, 1896
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
6 months 3 weeks ago
You are the buyer of your own life

They are trying as directly as possible to sell you experiences, i.e. what you are able to do with the car, not the car as a product itself. An extreme example of this is this existing economic marketing concept, which basically evaluates the value of you as a potential consumer of your own life. Like how much are you worth, in the sense of all you will spend to buy back your own life as a certain quality life. You will spend so much in doctors, so much in beauty, so much in transcendental meditation, so much for music, and so on. What you are buying is a certain image and practice of your life. So what is your market potential, as a buyer of your own life in this sense?

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 6 days ago
Proceeding from ourselves, from our own...

Proceeding from ourselves, from our own human consciousness, the only consciousness which we feel from within and in which feeling is identical with being, we attribute some sort of consciousness, more or less dim, to all living things, and even to the stones themselves, for they also live. And the evolution of organic beings is simply the struggle to realize fullness of consciousness through suffering, a continual aspiration to be others without ceasing to be themselves, to break and yet to preserve their proper limits.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 2 weeks ago
Do not hire a man who...

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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p. 486
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
3 weeks 1 day ago
Lives matter in the sense that...

Lives matter in the sense that they assume physical form within the sphere of appearance; lives matter because they are to be valued equally.

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p. 12
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
2 months 1 week ago
Pay attention to your enemies, for...

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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§ 12
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 1 week ago
The capacity to reason is a...

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 1 week ago
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at...

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."

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Cæsar
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
2 weeks 3 days ago
A good reputation…

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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Maxim 108
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 weeks ago
If you die, I will lie...

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

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Act 10, sc. 2
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months 3 weeks ago
Why has the Revolution of France...

Why has the Revolution of France been stained with crimes, which the Revolution of the United States of America was not? Men are physically the same in all countries; it is education that makes them different. Accustom a people to believe that priests or any other class of men can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance.

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Worship and Church Bells, 1797
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 days ago
The liturgy of emptiness dispels the...

The liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist economy of the commodity.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Education to true religion is the...

Education to true religion is the final task of the new education.

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General Nature of New Eduction p. 38
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 6 days ago
Use harms and even….

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

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Niebla [Mist]
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 2 weeks ago
[M]y father's rejection of all that...

[M]y father's rejection of all that is called religious belief, was not, as many might suppose, primarily a matter of logic and evidence: the grounds of it were moral, still more than intellectual. He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power with perfect goodness and righteousness.

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(pp. 39-40)
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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 3 weeks ago
Beating is the worst, and therefore...

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

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Sec. 84
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 week 6 days ago
Why is it after a century...

Why is it after a century of socialist disasters, and an intellectual legacy that has been time and again exploded, the left-wing position remains, as it were, the default position to which thinking people gravitate when called upon for a comprehensive philosophy? Why are "right-wingers" marginalised in the educational system, denounced in the media and regarded by our political class as untouchable, fit only to clean up after the orgies of luxurious nonsense indulged in by their moral superiors?

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Fate is not in man but...

Fate is not in man but around him.

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Ptahhotep
Ptahhotep
2 months 1 week ago
Truth is great and its effectiveness...

Truth is great and its effectiveness endures. 

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Maxim no. 5. Cf. 1 Esdras 4:41
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 week ago
The man old in days will...

The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become one and the same.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 4 days ago
He has been named respectively, Jehovah,...

He has been named respectively, Jehovah, Allah, Brahma, Father in Heaven, Order of Heaven, First Cause, Supreme Being, Chance. Each name corresponds to a system of thought derived from the experiences of those who have used it.Among medieval and modern philosophers, anxious to establish the religious significance of God, an unfortunate habit has prevailed of paying Him metaphysical compliments. He has been conceived as the foundation of the metaphysical situation with its ultimate activity. If this conception be adhered to, there can be no alternative except to discern in Him the origin of all evil as well as of all good. He is then the supreme author of the play, and to Him must therefore be ascribed its shortcomings as well as its success.

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Ch. 11: "God", pp. 250-251
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 3 weeks ago
Poetry must have something in it...

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 1 week ago
Form may then be defined as...

Form may then be defined as the operation of forces that carry the experience of an event, object, scene, and situation to its own integral fulfillment.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 week ago
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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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
Her absence is no more emphatic...

Her absence is no more emphatic in those places than anywhere else. It's not local at all. I suppose if one were forbidden all salt one wouldn't notice it much more in any one food more than another. Eating in general would be different, every day, at every meal. It is like that. The act of living is different all through. Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 2 weeks ago
She with one breath attunes the...

She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.

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"Inspiration", in An American Anthology, 1900
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
A gifted humanity can only produce...

A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints.

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