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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months ago
O tenderly the haughty day Fills...

O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.

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Ode, st. 1
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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
1 week 1 day ago
To sum up: we have seen...

To sum up: we have seen that of the three notions of 'partial interpretation' discussed, each is either unsuitable for Carnap's purposes (starting with observation terms), or incompatible with a rather minimal scientific realism; and, in addition, the second notion depends upon gross and misleading changes in our use of language. Thus in none of these senses is 'a partially interpreted calculus in which only the observation terms are directly interpreted' an acceptable model for a scientific theory.

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"What theories are not"
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
2 weeks 2 days ago
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the...

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

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p. 63
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 1 week ago
We ought so…

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 320

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Lucretius
Lucretius
2 months 2 weeks ago
What is food to one...

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

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Book IV, line 637 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations) Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 4 days ago
Civil government, so far as it...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Chapter I, Part II, 775.
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
1 month 3 weeks ago
No differeance without alterity, no alterity...

No differeance without alterity, no alterity without singularity, no singularity without here-now.

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Injunctions of Marx, p,31
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months ago
Under no pretext should arms and...

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in London, March 1850
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 day ago
I take it for granted, when...

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere, - for I have had a little experience in that business, - that there is a desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country, - and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as the audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

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p. 484
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 weeks 5 days ago
Fourth, this supreme law, which is...

Fourth, this supreme law, which is celestial and living harmony, does not so much as demand that the special ideas shall surrender their peculiar arbitrariness and caprice entirely; for that would be self-destructive. It only requires that they influence and be influenced by one another.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 4 weeks ago
I see your vile implication. My...

I see your vile implication. My only explanation for it is that you are criminally insane.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 3 days ago
These people who have fled inward...
These people who have fled inward for their freedom also have to live outwardly, become visible, let themselves be seen; they are united with mankind through countless ties of blood, residence, education, fatherland, chance, the importunity of others; they are likewise presupposed to harbour countless opinions simply because these are the ruling opinions of the time; every gesture which is not clearly a denial counts as agreement.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 2 days ago
But though all...
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 weeks 2 days ago
Friendship is almost always the union...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

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"Friendships"
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 weeks ago
The greatest invention of the nineteenth...

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

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Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century", p. 136
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
1 month 2 weeks ago
Ill repute is a good thing….

Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 weeks ago
Things have their root and their...

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months ago
Political Economy regards the proletarian ......

Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. ... (1) What is the meaning, in the development of mankind, of this reduction of the greater part of mankind to abstract labor? (2) What mistakes are made by the piecemeal reformers, who either want to raise wages and thereby improve the situation of the working class, or - like Proudhon - see equality of wages as the goal of social revolution?.

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First Manuscript - Wages of Labour, p. 6.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 week 6 days ago
Ritual society is a society of...

Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 1 week ago
It is not your strength and...

It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Fate is not in man but...

Fate is not in man but around him.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
Cantare amantis est. Singing is of...

Singing is of a lover.

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Variant translation: To sing is characteristic of the lover. 336
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 4 weeks ago
Victories over ingrained patterns of thought...

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 4 weeks ago
Now any dogma, based primarily on...

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

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William James
William James
2 months ago
If we remembered everything, we should...

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take as long for us to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of the facts which filled them.

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Ch. 16
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
2 weeks 2 days ago
The greater part of Eastern teachers...

The greater part of Eastern teachers of the Church, from Clement of Alexandria to Maximus the Confessor, were supporters of Apokatastasis, of universal salvation and resurrection. And this is characteristic of (contemporary) Russian religious thought. Orthodox thought has never been suppressed by the idea of Divine justice and it never forgot the idea of Divine love. Chiefly - it did not define man from the point of view of Divine justice but from the idea of transfiguration and Deification of man and cosmos.

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"The Truth of Orthodoxy" as translated in Vestnik of the Russian West European Patriarchal Exarchate
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 4 weeks ago
The fact that the general incidence...

The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists the incidence is ten times greater.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 week 6 days ago
The task of power is to...

The task of power is to transform the always possible 'no' into a 'yes.'

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 1 day ago
So it happens at times that...

So it happens at times that a person believes that he has a world-view, but that there is yet one particular phenomenon that is of such a nature that it baffles the understanding, and that he explains differently and attempts to ignore in order not to harbor the thought that this phenomenon might overthrow the whole view, or that his reflection does not possess enough courage and resolution to penetrate the phenomenon with his world-view.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 week 6 days ago
When we can't dream any longer...

When we can't dream any longer we die.

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Quoted by Margaret C. Anderson in "Emma Goldman in Chicago", Mother Earth magazine
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 5 days ago
If your little savage were left...

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 week 6 days ago
The outsider, Haller says, is a...

The outsider, Haller says, is a self-divided man; being self-divided, his chief desire is to be unified. He is selfish as a man with a lifelong raging toothache.

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Chapter Three, The Romantic Outsider
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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks 2 days ago
The kingdom of heaven can be...

The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

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18:23
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 1 day 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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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is object proof that homosexuality...

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

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As quoted in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day (2001) by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon ISBN 041522974X
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month ago
The supporters of the Development Hypothesis......

The supporters of the Development Hypothesis... can show that any existing species-animal or vegetable-when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue; until, ultimately, the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
He that I am reading seems...

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

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Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 week 6 days ago
Whatever is merely positive is lifeless....

Whatever is merely positive is lifeless. Negativity is essential to vitality.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
3 weeks 2 days ago
Man is an imagining being. Ch....

Man is an imagining being.

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Ch. 2, sect. 10
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 4 weeks ago
A proud man is always looking...

A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

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Book III, Chapter 8, "The Great Sin"
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 1 day ago
Truth gains more even by the...

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

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Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
Lend yourself to others, but give...

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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Ch. 10. Of Managing the Will
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
We are no nearer heaven on...

We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.

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Ch. 12
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness,...

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (October 12, 1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 6 days ago
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece...

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

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Section 38
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 1 day ago
If one prefers to have little...

If one prefers to have little with blessing, to have truth with concern, to suffer instead of exulting over imagined victories, then one presumably will not be disposed to praise the knowledge, as if what it bestows were at all proportionate to the trouble it causes, although one would not therefore deny that through its pain it educates a person, if he is honest enough to want to be educated rather than to be deceived, out of the multiplicity to seek the one, out of abundance to seek the one thing needful, as this is plainly and simply offered precisely according to the need for it.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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To attain this end we must...

To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue. But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today. What is to be done in these circumstances? To favor revolutions, overthrow everything, repel force by force?... No! We are very far from that. Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.

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Book V, Ch. 7
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 day ago
Choose your parents wisely. On the...

Choose your parents wisely.

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On the recipe for longevity; Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 29, 2012
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month ago
Every other art,-as poetry, music, painting,-may...

Every other art,-as poetry, music, painting,-may be practised without the process showing forth the rules according to which it is conducted ;-but in the self-cognizant art of the philosopher, no step can be taken without declaring the grounds upon which it proceeds.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month ago
It is a proof that the...

It is a proof that the state is not an arbitrary invention, but is established by nature and reason, when we actually find that, in places where men have lived together for a time and have become educated, states are erected, although the people in the one such place know not that the same thing has been done in other places. Each people, which does not live in a condition of nature, but has a government, no matter how constituted, has a right to compel its recognition from all adjoining states.

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