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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 3 weeks ago
The law of faith, being a...

The law of faith, being a covenant of free grace, God alone can appoint what shall be necessarily believed by everyone whom He will justify. What is the faith which He will accept and account for righteousness, depends wholly on his good pleasure. For it is of grace, and not of right, that this faith is accepted. And therefore He alone can set the measures of it: and what he has so appointed and declared is alone necessary. No-body can add to these fundamental articles of faith; nor make any other necessary, but what God himself hath made, and declared to be so. And what these are which God requires of those who will enter into, and receive the benefits of the new covenant, has already been shown. An explicit belief of these is absolutely required of all those to whom the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, and salvation through his name proposed.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
1 month 3 weeks ago
Life is writing. The sole purpose...

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

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"On Philosophy: To Dorothea," in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 5 days ago
No one is ignorant that there...

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
6 months 4 weeks ago
Cyphered message

The symptom is not only a cyphered message, it is at the same time a way for the subject to organize his enjoyment - that is why, even after the completed interpretation, the subject is not prepared to renounce his symptom.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 3 weeks ago
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest...

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 3 weeks ago
Amid the pressure of great events,...

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
If a man walk in the...

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

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p. 485
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 6 days ago
Since the great foundation...
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months ago
How many things served us…

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

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Ch. 27. Of Friendship
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness...

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months 3 weeks ago
When the qualification to vote is...

When the qualification to vote is regulated by years, it is placed on the firmest possible ground, because the qualification is such as nothing but dying before the time can take away; and the equality of Rights, as a principle, is recognized in the act of regulating the exercise. But when Rights are placed upon, or made dependent upon property, they are on the most precarious of all tenures. "Riches make themselves wings, and fly away," and the rights fly with them ; and thus they become lost to the man when they would be of most value.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
Generosity is nothing else than a...

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 weeks 6 days ago
The images of mankind have become...

The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied.

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(p. 346)
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 1 week ago
The respect inspired by the link...

The respect inspired by the link between man and the reality alien to this world can make itself evident to that part of man which belongs to the reality of this world. The reality of this world is necessity. The part of man which is in this world is the part which is in bondage to necessity and subject to the misery of need. The one possibility of indirect expression of respect for the human being is offered by men's needs, the needs of the soul and of the body, in this world.

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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
2 months 4 days ago
(The end is) life in agreement...

(The end is) life in agreement with nature.

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As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno', 7.87
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 4 days ago
Choose always the way that seems...

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

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As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 101
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 weeks ago
The world of immediate experience-the world...

The world of immediate experience-the world in which we find ourselves living-must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

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p. 123
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
The deliberate aim at Peace very...

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

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p. 284.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks 1 day ago
We cannot pretend that we do...

We cannot pretend that we do not see the armed policeman who marches up and down beneath our window to guarantee our security while we eat our luxurious dinner, or look at the new piece at the theater, or that we are unaware of the existence of the soldiers who will make their appearance with guns and cartridges directly our property is attacked.

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Chapter XII, Conclusion-Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 week 4 days ago
That is the best government which...

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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p. 160
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Horace
Horace
2 months 1 week ago
We are but numbers….

We are but numbers, born to consume resources.

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Book I, epistle ii, line 27
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Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
1 month 3 weeks ago
He who has thought…

He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 3 weeks ago
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

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God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for...

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 weeks ago
Hegel ... proceeds abstractly from the...

Hegel ... proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. ... He does not appeal to the intellect within us.

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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
2 weeks 1 day ago
In all the areas of life...

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

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"Rays of Hope" (p. 106)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 3 weeks ago
The charlatan takes very different shapes...

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

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"Similes, Parables and Fables" Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, § 394
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 3 weeks ago
The secret of being….

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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"Sixième discours: sur la nature de l'homme," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months ago
I have here only made a...

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

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Book III, Ch. 12. Of Physiognomy
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 months 1 week ago
The essence of the belief that...

The essence of the belief that bats have experience is that there is something that it is like to be a bat. Now we know that most bats (the microchiroptera, to be precise) perceive the external world primarily by sonar, or echolocation. ... But bat sonar, though clearly a form of perception, is not similar in its operation to any sense that we possess, and there is no reason to suppose that it is subjectively like anything we can experience or imagine. This appears to create difficulties for the notion of what it is like to be a bat.

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p. 168.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 3 weeks ago
If they drive God from the...

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
1 month ago
In short, analytic statements are statements...

In short, analytic statements are statements which we all accept and for which we do not give reasons. This is what we mean when we say that they are true by 'implicit convention'. The problem is then to distinguish them from other statements that we accept, and do not give reasons for, in particular from the statements that we unreasonably accept. To resolve this difficulty, we have to point out some of the crucial distinguishing features of analytic statements (e.g. the fact that the subject concept is not a law-cluster concept), and we have to connect these features with what, in the preceding section, was called the 'rationale' of the analytic-synthetic distinction. Having done this, we can see that the acceptance of analytic statements is rational, even though there are no reasons (in the sense of' evidence') in connection with them.

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The analytic and the synthetic
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms,...

In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.

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Chapter XXXI "The Philosophy of Logical Analysis"
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
The Grecian are youthful and erring...

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
I heartily accept the motto...

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is understandable then that tragic...

It is understandable then that tragic heroes, unlike the baroque characters who had preceded them, could never be mad, and that inversely madness could never take on the tragic value we have known since Nietzsche and Artaud. In the classical epoch, tragic characters and the mad face each other without any possible dialogue or common language, for the one can only pronounce the decisive language of being, where the truth of light and the depths of night meet in a flash, and the other repeats endlessly an indifferent murmur where the empty chatter of the day is cancelled out by the deceptive lies of the shadows.

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Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 day ago
I predict we will abolish suffering...

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

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Quoted in Ethics Matters (2012) by Peter and Charlotte Vardy, p. 114 ISBN 978-0334043911
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Empedocles
Empedocles
2 months 1 week ago
But, when the elements have been...

But, when the elements have been mingled in the fashion of a man and come to the light of day, or in the fashion of the race of wild beasts or plants or birds, then men say that these come into being; and when they are separated, they call that woeful death. They call it not aright; but I too follow the custom, and call it so myself.

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fr. 9 As quoted by John Burnet, Early Greek philosophy (1908) p. 240
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 4 weeks ago
The long habit of living indisposeth...

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

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Chapter V
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 3 weeks ago
Reading the morning newspaper is the...

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

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Miscellaneous writings of G.W.F. Hegel, translation by Jon Bartley Stewart, Northwestern University Press, 2002, page 247.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
Tolerance - the function of an...

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
The undramatic fact is that I...

The undramatic fact is that I just think and think and think until I have something [for a story], and there is nothing marvelous or artistic about the phenomenon.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 weeks ago
German idealism rescued philosophy from the...

German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 3 weeks ago
Let us apply these principles to...

Let us apply these principles to adultery. The state can no more prohibit it or punish it by law than any other illegitimate satisfaction of the sexual impulse.

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P. 431
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 1 week ago
Science does not stand still, and...

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

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Afterword To The 2011 Edition, p. 187
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 weeks 6 days ago
The electronic age is a world...

The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures.

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
3 months 1 week ago
The highest manifestation...

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A being that is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. Variant translation: Now slavery has a certain likeness to death, hence it is also called civil death. For life is most evident in a thing's moving itself, while what can only be moved by another, seems to be as if dead. But it is manifest that a slave is not moved by himself, but only at his master's command.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
You are the salt of the...

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Matthew 5:13-16 (NIV) (See also: Mark 9:50; Luke 14:34, 35)
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 1 week ago
I am dreaming ...? Let me...

I am dreaming ...? Let me dream, if this dream is my life. Do not awaken me from it. I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. But do I really believe in it ...? And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 1 week ago
Beginning to reason is like stepping...

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
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