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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 4 weeks ago
It is manifest... that every soul...

It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe... Naught is mixed, yet is there some presence. Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 5 days ago
Although life is a matter of...

Although life is a matter of indifference, the use which you make of it is not a matter of indifference.

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Book II, ch. 6, 1.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 4 weeks ago
I do not speak…

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

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Ch. 26. On the Education of Children
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kalokagathia
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Meijer for entrapping and arresting a disabled employee

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Meijer

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An autistic 16 year old was taking food from the deli over 3 months. They tracked how much he took, and when he had crossed a certain threshold, the had him arrested. There was another employee who was also part of the entrapment scheme.

The general vibe around the boycott is, these are poor workers, scraping by on minimum level wages. The multi billion dollar corporation follows the law absolutely when it comes to you, but we all know it's not so cut and dry at the top.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
Basically-I speak of life as it...

Basically-I speak of life as it is and not of abstract philosophical constructs-life is only bearable because one does not go to the end; doing something is only possible when one has particular illusions and that holds also for friendships, for everything.

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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
1 month 1 week ago
Writing is like getting married. One...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 10.
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 1 week ago
Before you embark on a journey...

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
An increase in the productivity of...

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

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Notebook IV, The Chapter on Capital, p. 308.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
2 months 4 weeks ago
So in all human affairs one...

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

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Book 1, Ch. 6 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 5 days ago
Custom renders love…

Custom renders love attractive; for that which is struck by oft-repeated blows however lightly, yet after long course of time is overpowered and gives way. See you not too that drops of water falling on rocks after long course of time scoop a hole through these rocks?

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Book IV, lines 1283-1287 (tr. Munro)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
There are limits beyond which your...

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
He came in sight of a...

He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. 'you cannot pass ... Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? ... Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.'

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Pilgrim's Regress 44-45
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 weeks 3 days ago
But the more he is alone...

But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.

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Toils And Pleasures.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 1 week ago
"Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as...

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.

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The Second Part, Chapter 27, p. 153
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 2 weeks ago
At this point we find ourselves...

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

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Chapter 12 (p. 116)
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 2 weeks ago
There is but one way to...

There is but one way to bring about the triumph of liberty, of justice, and of peace in Europe's international relations, to make civil war impossible between the different peoples who make up the European family; and that is the formation of the United States of Europe.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 2 weeks ago
To be a Christian - a...

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

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(p172)
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 weeks 6 days ago
The only thing that we know...

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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Book V, Ch. I
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 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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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1 month 1 week ago
The sensate body possesses an art...

The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis The Visible and the Invisible, trans.

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A. Lingis (Evanston: 1968), p. 135
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 weeks ago
All the evolution we know of...

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

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Vol. VI, par. 191
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
2 months 2 days ago
We have two ears and one...

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

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As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 23.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
My dear Wormwood, I note what...

My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier.

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Letter I
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 4 days ago
Compared with the wholesale violence of...

Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 3 weeks ago
There is an inconvenience which attends...

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

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Part 1, Section 1
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 2 weeks ago
Recalling all the erroneous things that...

Recalling all the erroneous things that doctors have been able to say about sex or madness does us a fat lot of good. I think that what is currently politically important is to determine the regime of verediction established at a given moment ... on the basis of which you can now recognize, for example, that doctors in the nineteenth century said so many stupid things about sex. ... It is not so much the history of the true or the history of the false as the history of verediction which has a political significance.

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Lecture 2, January 17, 1979, p. 36
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
1 month 1 week ago
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better...

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
The most essential characteristic of scientific...

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...

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The Scientific Outlook, 1931
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 4 weeks ago
He who would teach men to...

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

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Ch. 20. Of the Force of Imagination (tr. Donald M. Frame)
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
1 month 1 week ago
Language is a skin: I rub...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

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Talking, in A Lover's Discourse
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 week ago
It is not for you to...

It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

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1:7-8 (KJV)
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 1 week ago
We must needs believe in the...

We must needs believe in the other life, in the eternal life beyond the grave. ...And we must needs believe in that other life, perhaps, in order that we may deserve it, in order that we may obtain it, for it may be that he neither deserves it nor will obtain it who does not passionately desire it above reason and, if need be, against reason.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
One capitalist always kills many...

One capitalist always kills many.

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Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 836.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 2 weeks ago
All systems of morality are based...

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions.

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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
1 month 1 week ago
The politician being interviewed clearly takes...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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Sentence, in The Pleasure of the Text
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 3 weeks ago
Be substantially great in thyself, and...

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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Part I, Section XIX
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness:...

Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness: even if the end of the world were to come, I would not leave my bed at an ungodly hour.

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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
1 month 1 week ago
Jazz is the false liquidation of...

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

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Perennial fashion - Jazz, as quoted in The Sociology of Rock (1978) by Simon Frith
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
Fine manners need the support of...

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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Behavior
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 weeks 5 days ago
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

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(p. 36)
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
6 days ago
Science has taught... me to be...

Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Nobody realizes that some people expend...

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 3 weeks ago
The inscrutable wisdom through which we...

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
6 days ago
I can assure you that there...

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance - that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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On Medical Education
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
6 days ago
It is better...
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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 weeks ago
On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach,...

On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach, and such authors are the individualities who have great interest for someone who is composing an imaginary construction. They frequently are well informed about the religious-that is, they know definitely that they do not want to have anything to do with it. This is a great advantage over the systematicians, who without knowing where the religious really is located take it upon themselves to explain it-sometimes obsequiously, sometimes superciliously, but always unsuccessfully.

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Soren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life's Way, 1845, Hong 1988 p. 452
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 2 weeks ago
Allow me, Gentlemen, to pose this...

Allow me, Gentlemen, to pose this question in a more serious manner. Do I need to tell you that it is not a question at first of the natural, physiological, ethnographic difference that exists between individuals, but of the social difference, that is produced by the economic organization of society? Give to all the children, from their birth, the same means of maintenance, education, and instruction; give then to all the men thus raised the same social milieu, the same means of earning their living by their own labor, and you will see then that many of these differences, that we believe to be natural differences, will disappear because they are nothing but the effect of an unequal division of the conditions of intellectual and physical development - of the conditions of life.

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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
2 months 3 weeks ago
Judges of elegance and taste consider...

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

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Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811); translation by Richard Smith, The Rationale of Reward, J. & H. L. Hunt, London, 1825, Bk. 3, Ch. 1
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 1 week ago
Power as is really divided, and...

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

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The Third Part, Chapter 42, p. 315
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
But if the labourers could live...

But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.

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Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg. 657.
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