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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 day ago
So long as it is not...

So long as it is not possible to produce so much that there is enough for all, with more left over for expanding the social capital and extending the forces of production - so long as this is not possible, there must always be a ruling class directing the use of society's productive forces, and a poor, oppressed class. How these classes are constituted depends on the stage of development.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 1 week ago
One will rarely err if extreme...
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 4 days ago
You are never too old to...

You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream. Unknown, but also attributed to Les Brown, a motivational speaker. Commonly attributed to C.S. Lewis, but never with a primary source listed.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 day ago
The third argument, enclosing and defending...

The third argument, enclosing and defending the other two, consists in the development of those principles of logic according to which the humble argument is the first stage of a scientific inquiry into the origin of the three Universes, but of an inquiry which produces, not merely scientific belief, which is always provisional, but also a living, practical belief, logically justified in crossing the Rubicon with all the freightage of eternity.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
1 month 1 week ago
Bad company will…

Bad company will lead a man to the gallows!

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 6 days ago
In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of...

In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as in the Far East, regarded as existent in an immediately sensory way but is conceived as the one infinite power elevated above all the multiplicity of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the word, the religion of sublimity.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 days ago
There's nothing like deduction. We've determined...

There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
6 days ago
I think I can hardly overrate...

I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendancy, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia; or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe, and the state of human society itself. The last is the greatest evil.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 weeks 5 days ago
Form no covetous desire, so that...

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 1 week ago
Actions may be laudable or blameable;...

Actions may be laudable or blameable; but they cannot be reasonable: Laudable or blameable, therefore, are not the same with reasonable or unreasonable. The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. But reason has no such influence. Moral distinctions, therefore, are not the offspring of reason. Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 6 days ago
No one can be a great...

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead...Not that it is solely, or chiefly, to form great thinkers, that freedom of thinking is required. On the contrary, it is as much and even more indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
6 days ago
The wise will determine from the...

The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
The sham cause in physical influence...

The sham cause in physical influence consists in rashly assuming that the commerce of substance and transitive forces is sufficiently knowable from their mere existence. Hence it is not so much a system as rather the neglect of all philosophical system as a superfluity in the argument. Freeing the concept from this defect, we shall have a species of commerce alone deserving to be called real, and from which the whole constituting the world merits being called real, and not ideal or imaginary.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
5 days ago
The correct relationship between the higher...

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.

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Jesus
Jesus
Just now
Judge not, that you be not...

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV) (Also Luke 6:37-42)

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 4 days ago
The very man who has argued...

The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
One hardly saves a world without...

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
Knowledge of the fact differs from...

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 weeks 3 days ago
Number is the ruler of forms...

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Just now
Words ... are little houses, each...

Words ... are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in 'foreign commerce' on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves-this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together.

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Jesus
Jesus
Just now
For he must rule as king...

For he must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 1 week ago
The whole is a riddle, an...

The whole is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape, into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 4 days ago
Scientists try to eliminate their false...

Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer-whether animal or man-perishes with his false beliefs.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 1 week ago
Clever tyrants are never….

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 days ago
Our psychology is ... a science...

Our psychology is ... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. [It] Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.

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William James
William James
1 month 5 days ago
All our scientific and philosophic ideals...

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 1 week ago
A strong memory is commonly coupled...

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
In the part of this universe...

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 1 week ago
New opinions are always suspected, and...

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 5 days ago
Facts do not cease to exist...

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 6 days ago
I think that there is nothing,...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
1 week ago
Incarcerated Labor is Slavery

Prisoners work for pennies, producing goods for corporations who profit massively. It's slavery by another name: forced labor, no meaningful compensation, captive workforce. The 13th Amendment didn't abolish slavery; it relocated it behind prison walls where we pretend not to see.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 weeks 5 days ago
It is easy for us to...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.

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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 1 week ago
If Papists can be supposed to...

If Papists can be supposed to be as good subjects as others, they may be equally tolerated... If all subjects should be equally countenanced, & imployd by the Prince. the Papist[s] have an equall title.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 days ago
They sang the praises of nature,...

They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. They liked making songs about one another, and praised each other like children; they were the simplest songs, but they sprang from their hearts and went to one's heart. And not only in their songs but in all their lives they seemed to do nothing but admire one another. It was like being in love with each other, but an all-embracing, universal feeling.

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William James
William James
1 month 5 days ago
Every way of classifying a thing...

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
It is not necessary to ask...

It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 day ago
Three conceptions are perpetually turning up...

Three conceptions are perpetually turning up at every point in every theory of logic, and in the most rounded systems they occur in connection with one another. They are conceptions so very broad and consequently indefinite that they are hard to seize and may be easily overlooked. I call them the conceptions of First, Second, Third. First is the conception of being or existing independent of anything else. Second is the conception of being relative to, the conception of reaction with, something else. Third is the conception of mediation, whereby a first and second are brought into relation.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 1 week ago
In the sphere of thought, absurdity...

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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Plato
Plato
2 months 3 days ago
The vicious lover is the follower...

The vicious lover is the follower of earthly Love who desires the body rather than the soul; his heart is set on what is mutable and must therefore be inconstant. And as soon as the body he loves begins to pass the first flower of its beauty, he "spreads his wings and flies away," giving the lie to all his pretty speeches and dishonoring his vows, whereas the lover whose heart is touched by moral beauties is constant all his life, for he has become one with what will never fade.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 week 3 days ago
They all attributed the peaceful dominion...

They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 days ago
Wit makes its own welcome, and...

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, and no force of character can make any stand against good wit.

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William James
William James
1 month 5 days ago
Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow....

Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
6 days ago
[France is] a Country where the...

[France is] a Country where the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the Yoke of Laws and morals.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 days ago
Each to each a looking-glass, Reflects...

Each to each a looking-glass, Reflects his figure that doth pass. Every wayfarer he meets What himself declared repeats, What himself confessed records, Sentences him in his words; The form is his own corporal form, And his thought the penal worm. Yet shine forever virgin minds, Loved by stars and the purest winds, Which, o'er passion throned sedate, Have not hazarded their state; Disconcert the searching spy, Rendering to a curious eye The durance of a granite ledge To those who gaze from the sea's edge. It is there for benefit; It is there for purging light; There for purifying storms; And its depths reflect all forms; It cannot parley with the mean,- Pure by impure is not seen. For there's no sequestered grot, Lone mountain tarn, or isle forgot, But Justice, journeying in the sphere, Daily stoops to harbour there.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 weeks 2 days ago
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect...

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 weeks 5 days ago
Neither our distance from a preventable...

Neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people who, in respect to that evil, are in the same situation as we are, lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 1 week ago
The necessaries of life occasion the...

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 days ago
There is no sin, and there...

There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 day ago
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