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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 days ago
God's justice and His power are...

God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. We are to have our souls pure and clean, at that moment at least wherein we pray to Him, and purified from all vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present Him the rods wherewith to chastise us; instead of repairing anything we have done amiss, we double the wickedness and the offence when we offer to Him, to whom we are to sue for pardon, an affection full of irreverence and hatred. Which makes me not very apt to applaud those whom I observe to be so frequent on their knees, if the actions nearest to the prayer do not give me some evidence of amendment and reformation

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 days ago
Live as long as you please,...

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 weeks 5 days ago
Those who forget good and evil...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 day ago
Your god is too small. Attributed...

Your god is too small.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 days ago
The true Gospel has it that...

The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
3 weeks 3 days ago
Forgiveness is the key to action...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
3 weeks 6 days ago
War involves in its progress such...

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end. Prospects on the Rubicon

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 weeks 4 days ago
Money is itself a product of...

Money is itself a product of circulation.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even...

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
1 month 4 days ago
We must learn how to imitate...

We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 weeks 6 days ago
This remark provides the key to...

This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is a kind of selective...

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 weeks ago
The universal and lasting establishment of...

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 3 days ago
Humans are amphibians - half spirit...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 weeks 5 days ago
The true is the whole…

The true is the whole.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 weeks 4 days ago
We need not suppose that when...

We need not suppose that when po+B40wer resides in an exclusive class, that class will knowingly and deliberately sacrifice the other classes to themselves: it suffices that, in the absence of its natural defenders, the interest of the excluded is always in danger of being overlooked: and, when looked at, is seen with very different eyes from those of the persons whom it directly concerns.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
3 weeks 2 days ago
Scientific Method... [is] even less existent...

Scientific Method... [is] even less existent than some other non-existent subjects.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 weeks 3 days ago
One cannot become a saint when...

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 weeks 5 days ago
Suicide may also be regarded as...

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 weeks 4 days ago
The writers by whom, more than...

The writers by whom, more than by any others, a new mode of political thinking was brought home to me, were those of the St. Simonian school in France. In 1829 and 1830 I became acquainted with some of their writings. They were then only in the earlier stages of their speculations. They had not yet dressed out their philosophy as a religion, nor had they organized their scheme of Socialism. They were just beginning to question the principle of hereditary property. I was by no means prepared to go with them even this length; but I was greatly struck with the connected view which they for the first time presented to me, of the natural order of human progress; and especially with their division of all history into organic periods and critical periods.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 days ago
Faith is born and preserved in...

Faith is born and preserved in us by preaching why Christ came, what he brought and gave to us, and the benefits we obtain when we receive him. This happens when Christian liberty - which he gives to us - is rightly taught and we are told in what way as Christians we are all kings and priests and therefore lords of all.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1 month 3 weeks ago
A novel is never anything but...

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. And in a good novel, the whole of the philosophy has passed into the images. But if once the philosophy overflows the characters and action, and therefore looks like a label stuck on the work, the plot loses its authenticity and the novel its life. Nevertheless, a work that is to last cannot dispense with profound ideas. And this secret fusion between experiences and ideas, between life and reflection on the meaning of life, is what makes the great novelist.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 weeks 5 days ago
We love those who hate our...

We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love. All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 2 weeks ago
The superior man is modest...

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. James Legge translation. Variant translations: The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. The greater man does not boast of himself, But does what he must do. A good man does not give orders, but leads by example.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 4 days ago
Standing on the bare ground, -...

Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 2 days ago
We are born helpless. As soon...

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. Introduction

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 days ago
When I play with my cat….

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 3 weeks ago
When one plays for top prizes...

When one plays for top prizes one must be prepared to pay top stakes.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 weeks 3 days ago
We must choose for others as...

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 weeks 6 days ago
Don't get involved in partial problems,...

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem.

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Just now
Sleep is a death; oh, make...

Sleep is a death; oh, make me tryBy sleeping what it is to die,And as gently lay my headOn my grave as now my bed.

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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
4 weeks ago
All poetry is misrepresentation…

All poetry is misrepresentation.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 3 days ago
A great myth is relevant as...

A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts; as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 4 days ago
Blessed are those who have no...

Blessed are those who have no talent!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 4 days ago
Too busy with the crowded hour...

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
6 days ago
Reason is immortal, all else mortal....

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
4 days ago
The concept of space...
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Epicurus
Epicurus
1 month 2 weeks ago
A wise man, who puts himself...

A wise man, who puts himself under the government of reason, will be able to receive an injury with calmness, and to treat the person who committed it with lenity; for he will rank injuries among the casual events of life, and will prudently reflect that he can no more stop the natural current of human passions, than he can curb the stormy winds.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 weeks 5 days ago
Of course, the aim of a...

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. Yet the concrete practice of the US legal system from 1883 to 1964 promoted a tyranny of the white majority much more than a safeguarding of the rights of black Americans.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 4 days ago
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,...

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks 1 day ago
For Warre, consisteth not in Battell...

For Warre, consisteth not in Battell onely, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 month 3 weeks ago
Thoughts in a poem. The poet...
Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1 month 3 weeks ago
A sub-clerk in the post office...

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks 1 day ago
By MANNERS, I mean not here...

By MANNERS, I mean not here Decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the Small Morals; But those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in Peace and Unity. To which end we are to consider that the Felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no such Finis ultimus (utmost aim) nor Summum Bonum (greatest good) as is spoken of in the books of the old Moral Philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 weeks 5 days ago
It is a sign of wisdom...

It is a sign of wisdom to be able to use parrhesia without falling into the garrulousness of athuroglossos... One of the problems... how to distinguish that which must be said from that which should be kept silent.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 3 days ago
I do not think the resemblance...

I do not think the resemblance between the Christian and the merely imaginative experience is accidental. I think that all things, in their own way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "Reflect" is the important word. This lower life of the imagination is not a beginning of, nor a step toward, the higher life of the spirit, merely an image.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 weeks 5 days ago
To be a philosopher, that is...

To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to love truth, in so far as it is compatible with his own interest, with the will of his superiors, with the dogmas of the church, or with the prejudices and tastes of his contemporaries; so long as he rests content with this position, he is only a philautos, not a philosophos [a lover of self, not a lover of wisdom]. For this title of honor is well and wisely conceived precisely by its stating that one should love the truth earnestly and with one's whole heart, and thus unconditionally and unreservedly, above all else, and, if need be, in defiance of all else. Now the reason for this is the one previously stated that the intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 2 weeks ago
The silent treasuring up of...

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me? To keep silently in mind what one has seen and heard, to study hard and never feel contented, to teach others tirelessly; have I done (all of) these things?

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 days ago
One ought to fast, watch, and...

One ought to fast, watch, and labor to the extent that such activities are needed to harness the body's desires and longings; however, those who presume that they are justified by works pay no attention to the need for self-discipline but see the works themselves as the way to righteousness. They believe that if they do a great number of impressive works all will be well and righteousness will be the result. Sometimes this is pursued with such zeal that they become mentally unstable and their bodies are sapped of all strength. Such disastrous consequences demonstrate that the belief that we are justified and saved by works without faith is extremely foolish.

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William James
William James
3 weeks 4 days ago
Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks...

Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"

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