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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
2 weeks 4 days ago
A girl, if she has any...

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not. And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 days ago
It is an article of passionate...

It is an article of passionate faith among "politically correct" biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
6 days ago
Memento mori-remember death! These are important...

Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 4 days ago
The fundamental criterion for judging any...

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

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Chapter IV, Section 37, p. 230
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Jesus
Jesus
4 weeks ago
I have said these things to...

I have said these things to you so that by means of me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world.

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16:33, NWT
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
There are few with whom I...

There are few with whom I can communicate so freely as with Pope. But Pope cannot bear every truth. He has a timidity which hinders the full exertion of his faculties, almost as effectually as bigotry cramps those of the general herd of mankind. But whoever is a genuine follower of truth keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader. And, my Lord, if it may be properly considered, it were infinitely better to remain possessed by the whole legion of vulgar mistakes, than to reject some, and, at the same time, to retain a fondness for others altogether as absurd and irrational. The first has at least a consistency, that makes a man, however erroneously, uniform at least; but the latter way of proceeding is such an inconsistent chimera and jumble of philosophy and vulgar prejudice, that hardly anything more ridiculous can be conceived.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 6 days ago
The blazing evidence of immortality is...

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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July 1855
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
6 days ago
The error arises from the learned...

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

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Chapter VI, Attitude of Men of the Present Day to War Variant translation: Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
2 weeks 4 days ago
Poetry and imagination begin life. A...

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
2 months 1 week ago
An honest man nearly always thinks...

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

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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 Tryon Edwards, p. 277.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 days ago
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world...

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 days ago
O light! This is the cry...

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. Return to Tipasa (1954) Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 6 days ago
I strongly suspect that most of...

I strongly suspect that most of the great knowers of Suchness paid very little attention to art.... (To a person whose transfigured and transfiguring mind can see the All in every this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a religious painting will be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 1 day ago
The irony of world history turns...

The irony of world history turns everything upside down. We, the "revolutionaries," the "rebels"-we are thriving far better on legal methods than on illegal methods and revolt. The parties of order, as they call themselves, are perishing under the legal conditions created by themselves. They cry despairingly with Odilon Barrot: la légalité notes tue, legality is the death of us; whereas we, under this legality, get firm muscles and rosy cheeks and look like eternal life.

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Introduction (1895) to Marx's The Class Struggles in France (1848-50), p. 27
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 6 days ago
Money often costs too much. Wealth

Money often costs too much.

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Jesus
Jesus
4 weeks ago
For he must rule as king...

For he must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing.

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Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 15: 25-26, NWT
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 1 day ago
The slave frees himself when, of...

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 2 weeks ago
No matter that we…

No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 days ago
I think that I have succeeded...

I think that I have succeeded in making it clear that this doctrine gives room for explanations of many facts which without it are absolutely and hopelessly inexplicable; and further that it carries along with it the following doctrines: first, a logical realism of the most pronounced type; second, objective idealism; third, tychism, with its consequent thoroughgoing evolutionism. We also notice that the doctrine presents no hindrences to spiritual influences, such as some philosophies are felt to do.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 1 week ago
She has forgotten speech and language...

She has forgotten speech and language and the restlessness of thoughts, has forgotten what is even greater restlessness, this self, has forgotten herself-she, the lost woman, who is now lost in her Savior, who, lost in him, rests at his feet-like a picture. He speaks about her; he says: Her many sins are forgiven her, because she loved much. Although she is present, it is almost as if she were absent; it is almost as if he changed her into a picture, a parable.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 days ago
I do not have much liking...

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

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Democritus
Democritus
1 month 3 weeks ago
All who delight in the pleasures...

All who delight in the pleasures of the belly, exceeding all measure in eating and drinking and love, find that the pleasures are brief and last but a short while-only so long as they are eating and drinking-but the pains that come after are many and endure. The longing for the same things keeps ever returning, and whenever the objects of one's desire are realized forthwith the pleasure vanishes, and one has no further use for them. The pleasure is brief, and once more the need for the same things returns.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
2 weeks 4 days ago
Just as modern mass production requires...

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
Political ideals must be based upon...

Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 1 day ago
In situations of sparse resources along...

In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

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The Role of Law in Progressive Politics in Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 5 days ago
The very man who has argued...

The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.

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Reflections on the Psalms (1958), ch. VII: Connivance, p. 73
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
2 months 3 weeks ago
The greatness of the human being...

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

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q. 1, art. 2, ad 4
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
Economy is a distributive virtue, and...

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The first thing to realize, if...

The first thing to realize, if you wish to become a philosopher, is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man's world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man's, so that they cannot both be right. People's opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.

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"How to Become a Philosopher" (1942), in The Art of Philosophizing, and Other Essays (New York: Philosophical Library, 1968), p. 2
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 6 days ago
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is...

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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p. 158
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 6 days ago
There is no knowledge that is...

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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Old Age
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Cisero
Cisero
2 months 3 weeks ago
Force overcome by force.

Force overcome by force.

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Pro Milone, Chapter XI, section 30 Variant translation: Violence conquered by violence.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
No nation was ever so virtuous...

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 70
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks ago
As in the presence of the...

As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

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The Second Part, Chapter 18, p. 93
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 1 day ago
Never stay up on the barren...

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 days ago
I am displeased with everything. If...

I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 week 2 days ago
The simulacrum now hides, not the...

The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
When I walk along with...

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 weeks 6 days ago
It is no accident that all...

It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

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"The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy," Manual Training and Vocational Education17 (1916); also Middle Works 10: 137-143.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 days ago
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the...

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 5 days ago
Philosophy unravels the knots...
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 6 days ago
Human beings have faculties more elevated...

Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness which does not include their gratification. I do not, indeed, consider the Epicureans to have been by any means faultless in drawing out their scheme of consequences from the utilitarian principle. To do this in any sufficient manner, many Stoic, as well as Christian elements require to be included. But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 1 week ago
The worst readers are those who...
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 2 weeks ago
Never any good came out of...

Never any good came out of female domination. God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

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-- Table Talk, quoted in Luther On "Woman"
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 days ago
As a liberal I would hesitate...

As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

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As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
4 days ago
All media are extensions of some...

All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 5 days ago
For it was my master who...

For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 1 week ago
As regards the objection that possibles...

As regards the objection that possibles are independent of the decrees of God I grant it of actual decrees (although the Cartesians do not at all agree to this), but I maintain that the possible individual concepts involve certain possible free decrees; for example, if this world was only possible, the individual concept of a particular body in this world would involve certain movements as possible, it would also involve the laws of motion, which are the free decrees of God; but these, also, only as possibilities. Because, as there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an infinity of laws, certain ones appropriate to one; others, to another, and each possible individual of any world involves in its concept the laws of its world.

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(May, 1686) as quoted in George R. Montgomery, Tr., "Correspondence between Leibniz and Arnauld," Leibniz: Discourse on metaphysics; correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1916) VIII, p. 108
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 days ago
He and his tyrannicide! I am...

He and his tyrannicide! I am in a mad fury about these explosions. If that is the new world! Damn O'Donovan Rossa; damn him behind and before, above, below, and roundabout; damn, deracinate, and destroy him, root and branch, self and company, world without end. Amen. I write that for sport if you like, but I will pray in earnest, O Lord, if you cannot convert, kindly delete him!

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Letter to Sidney Colvin, 2 August 1881. Quoted in Terrorism and Literature Chapter 12 - "Parliament Is Burning" by Deaglán Ó Donghaile ISBN 9781316987292
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 week 1 day ago
1. Find a subject you care...

1. Find a subject you care about.2. Do not ramble, though.3. Keep it simple.4. Have the guts to cut.5. Sound like yourself.6. Say what you mean to say.7. Pity the readers.

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As quoted in Science Fictionisms (1995), compiled by William Rotsler
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