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Parmenides
Parmenides
3 months 1 week ago
You must learn all things, both...

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

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Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 3 weeks ago
Are designations congruent with things?
Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man can ever reach the point of fancying himself to possess a "truth" of the grade just indicated. If he will not be satisfied with truth in the form of tautology, that is to say, if he will not be content with empty husks, then he will always exchange truths for illusions.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 5 days ago
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 weeks ago
Do not resist the evil-doer and...

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

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V. "Do not resist the evil-doer" is an allusion to the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:39.
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
4 months 1 week ago
War is the father and king...

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 2 weeks ago
The more remote and unreal the...

The more remote and unreal the personal mother is, the more deeply will the son's yearning for her clutch at his soul, awakening that primordial and eternal image of the mother for whose sake everything that embraces, protects, nourishes, and helps assumes maternal form, from the Alma Mater of the university to the personification of cities, countries, sciences and ideals.

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"Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon" (1942) In CW 13: Alchemical Studies P.47
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 2 weeks ago
I'm not clever enough to be...

I'm not clever enough to be a physicist. When asked about why he chose to become a biologist.

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UR Samtiden - Verklighetens magi 27 October 2012.
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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
1 week 1 day ago
If the press was to be...

If the press was to be free, nothing would be so important as precisely its liberation from every coercion that could be put on it in the name of a law. And, that it might come to that, I my own self should have to have absolved myself from obedience to the law.

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Cambridge 1995, p. 249
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 3 weeks ago
The present hour is always wealthiest...

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 210
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
It goes without saying that the...

It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.

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Volume II, Ch. VIII, p. 176-177.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
I used to ask myself, over...

I used to ask myself, over a coffin: "What good did it do the occupant to be born?," I now put the same question about anyone alive.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 1 day ago
But the other conception, namely the...

But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin.

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Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 4, 694
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 1 week ago
We hold that the most wonderful...

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

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p. 5
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is imperative that we should...

It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. ... No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory. p 11; this was originally listed here in a somewhat misleading form combining it with another statement on the interpretations of dreams on p. 14: No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 2 weeks ago
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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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 weeks ago
When the woman showed her love...

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

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Ch. XI
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 3 weeks ago
Religious persecution may shield itself under...

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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Speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings (18 February 1788), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), pp. 7-8
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months 1 week ago
God is denied either because the...

God is denied either because the world is so bad or because the world is so good.

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Original: Бога отрицают или потому, что мир так плох, или потому, что мир так хорош.
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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
1 week 1 day ago
The State's behavior is violence, and...

The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime." The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

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As quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 664
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 weeks ago
The true function of logic ......

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 weeks ago
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the...

Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.

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p. 47
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
2 months 3 weeks ago
Old forms of government finally grow...

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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On Manners and Fashion
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 3 weeks ago
The world neither ever saw, nor...

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

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Chapter X, Part I.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
4 months 2 days ago
To God, truly, the Giver and...

To God, truly, the Giver and Architect of Forms, and it may be to the angels and higher intelligences, it belongs to have an affirmative knowledge of forms immediately, and from the first contemplation. But this assuredly is more than man can do, to whom it is granted only to proceed at first by negatives, and at last to end in affirmatives, after exclusion has been exhausted.

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Aphorism XV
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 3 weeks ago
The vices respectively fall short of...

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
What's sauce for the gander is...

What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

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Introduction, p. 37.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
Although usury is itself a form...

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.

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Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 455.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
2 months 5 days ago
I never lose an opportunity of...

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. II (1914) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 406
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 3 weeks ago
The retinue of a grandee in...

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

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Chapter XI, Part III, Third Period, p. 240.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 3 weeks ago
'No one but you and one...

'No one but you and one 'jade' I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
Impossible for me to know whether...

Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks ago
In the whole world, that day,...

In the whole world, that day, there was not a more entirely unimportant-looking pair of people than this Miner and his Wife. And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison? There was born here, once more, a Mighty Man; whose light was to flame as the beacon over long centuries and epochs of the world; the whole world and its history was waiting for this man. It is strange, it is great.

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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
2 weeks 3 days ago
Is the position tenable, that certain...

Is the position tenable, that certain phenomena, possible in Euclidean space, would be impossible in non-Euclidean space, so that experience, in establishing these phenomena, would directly contradict the non-Euclidean hypothesis? For my part I think no such question can be put. To my mind it is precisely equivalent to the following, whose absurdity is patent to all eyes: are there lengths expressible in meters and centimeters, but which can not be measured in fathoms, feet, and inches, so that experience, in ascertaining the existence of these lengths, would directly contradict the hypothesis that there are fathoms divided into six feet?

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Ch. V: Experiment and Geometry (1905) Tr. George Bruce Halstead
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 6 days ago
Taken as a whole, the Cross...

Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.

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p. 136
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is impossible to imagine a...

It is impossible to imagine a more dramatic and horrifying combination of scientific triumph with political and moral failure than has been shown to the world in the destruction of Hiroshima. From the scientific point of view, the atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination of genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

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Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski
2 weeks 1 day ago
Culture, when it loses its sacred...

Culture, when it loses its sacred sense, loses all sense. With the disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection which could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization-the illusion that there are no limits to the changes that human life can undergo, that society is 'in principle' an endlessly flexible thing, and that to deny this flexibility and this perfectibility is to deny man's total autonomy and thus to deny man himself.

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The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
2 weeks 3 days ago
We should like to represent... the......

We should like to represent... the... universe, and... feel... we understood it. We... never can attain this representation: our weakness is too great. But... we desire... to conceive an infinite intelligence... which should see all, and... classify all in its time, as we classify, in our time, the little we see. ...This supreme intelligence would be only a demigod; infinite in one sense... limited in another, since it would have... imperfect recollection of the past... otherwise all recollections would be equally present... and for it there would be no time.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 2 weeks ago
Make sure that your religion is...

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

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Comment to Maurice O'Connor Drury, as quoted in Wittgenstein Reads Freud : The Myth of the Unconscious (1996) by Jacques Bouveresse, as translated by Carol Cosman, p. 14
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
3 months 3 weeks ago
Kant stated defensively that he had...

Kant stated defensively that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith," but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not "denied knowledge" but separated knowledge from thinking.

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p. 14
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks ago
The great law of culture is:...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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Richter.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 1 week ago
Moreover, nothing is so rare as...

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

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p. 193
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
To act is to anchor in...

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 months 2 weeks ago
All names of God remain hallowed...

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 1 week ago
Einstein analyses the ideas of time-order...

Einstein analyses the ideas of time-order and of simultaneity. Primarily (according to his analysis) time-order only refers to the succession of events at a given place. Accordingly each given place has its own time-order. But these time-orders are not independent in the system of nature, and their correlation is known to us by means of physical measurement. Now ultimately all physical measurement depends upon coincidence in time and place.

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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
1 month 6 days ago
The difference between a Humanist and...

The difference between a Humanist and a lunatic is in fact one of degree.

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Vol. 9
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 1 week ago
Consciousness, the craving for more, more,...

Consciousness, the craving for more, more, always more, hunger of eternity and thirst of infinity, appetite for God - these are never satisfied. Each consciousness seeks to be itself and all other consciousnesses without ceasing to be itself; it seeks to be God. And matter, unconsciousness, tends to be less and less, tends to be nothing, its thirst being a thirst for repose. Spirit says: I wish to be! and matter answers: I wish not to be!

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 6 days ago
The custom of procuring abortions has...

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

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Mother Earth
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 2 weeks ago
O ye of little faith, why...

O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

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16:8-11 (KJV)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 3 weeks ago
The composer reveals the innermost nature...

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

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Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 2 weeks ago
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets...

Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.

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"The Foundations of Historical Materialism," Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972), p. 9
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