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There will be no mass-based feminist...

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 1 day ago
It is sometimes difficult to avoid...

It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 5 days ago
They defend their errors as if...

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
1 month 1 week ago
I might try to save the...

I might try to save the view that 'future contingents' have no truth value by saying that even present-tense statements have no truth value if they refer to the outcome of events that are so far away that a causal signal informing me of the outcome could not have reached me-now without traveling faster than light. In other words, I might attempt saying that statements about events that are in neither the upper half nor the lower half of my light-cone have no truth value. In addition, statements about events in the upper half of my light-cone have no truth value, since they are in my future according to every coordinate system. So only statements about events in the lower half of my light-cone have a truth value; only events that are in 'my past* according to all observers are determined.

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Time and physical geometry
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
The custom of procuring abortions has...

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

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Mother Earth
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks ago
You can hardly...
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months ago
Woes and wonders of power, that...

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months 1 week ago
Everyone is forced to be a philosopher

The age of philosophy in the sense again that we are confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation. On the contrary, you cannot find your way around daily life itself without answering certain philosophical questions. It is a unique time when everyone is, in a way, forced to be some kind of philosopher.

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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
1 month 3 weeks ago
By freedom he meant a condition...

By freedom he meant a condition in which men were not prevented from choosing both the object and the manner of their worship. For him only a society in which this condition was realised could be called fully human. Its realisation was an ideal which Mill regarded as more precious than life itself.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 months 3 weeks ago
The organism does not have a...

The organism does not have a point of view: the person or creature does.

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"Panpsychism" (1979), p. 189.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 5 days ago
Good order is the foundation of...

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 6 days ago
Though the Earth, and all inferior...

Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. Thus no Body has any Right to but himself.

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Second Treatise of Government, Ch. V, sec. 27
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 5 days ago
A world full of happiness is...

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

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Ch. VI: International relations, p. 106
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 months 5 days ago
There are Plebes in all classes....

There are Plebes in all classes.

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As quoted by Julien Coupat in Interview with Julien Coupat, 2009
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 1 day ago
When the throne of God is...

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 weeks ago
This legible lesson, this ritual recording,...

This legible lesson, this ritual recording, must be repeated as often as possible; the punishments must be a school rather than a festival; an ever-open book rather than a ceremony. The duration that makes the punishment effective for the guilty is also useful for the spectators. They must be able to consult at each moment the permanent lexicon of crime and punishment. A secret punishment is a punishment half wasted. Children should be allowed to come to the places where the penalty is being carried out; there they will attend their classes in civics. And grown men will periodically relearn the laws. Let us conceive of places of punishment as a Garden of the Laws that families would visit on Sundays.

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Chapter Three, The Gentle Way in Punishment
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John Gray
John Gray
1 week 4 days ago
Blair has been the modern man...

Blair has been the modern man he claims to be: for him, a sense of subjective certainty is all that is needed for an action to be right. If deception is needed to realise the providential design, it cannot be truly deceitful.

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Neoconned!: How Blair took New Labour for a ride, The Independent
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 1 week ago
Thus our duties to animals are...

Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.

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Part II, p. 213
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
3 weeks 2 days ago
To sum up the whole, we...

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble; but the latter was attainable.

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'Lord Bacon', The Edinburgh Review (July 1837), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. II (1843), p. 395
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B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner
Just now
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived", but...

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived", but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

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Free and Happy Student in The Phi Delta Kappan (September 1973); later published in Reflections on Behaviorism and Society
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 weeks ago
Not only must people know, they...

Not only must people know, they must see with their own eyes. Because they must be made to be afraid; but also because they must be the witnesses, the guarantors, of the punishment, and because they must to a certain extent take part in it.

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Chapter One, pp.58
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?...

Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money.

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22:18-19 (KJV)
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 3 days ago
What we call Man's power over...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 3 weeks ago
Being is continuous becoming. P. 136

Being is continuous becoming.

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P. 136
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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 3 weeks ago
"I will show," said Agesilaus, "that...

"I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places."

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Of Agesilaus the Great
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 4 days ago
People seem not to see that...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Worship
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 5 days ago
In all affairs - love, religion,...

In all affairs - love, religion, politics, or business - it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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As quoted in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given.
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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
1 month 2 weeks ago
Tactically, conceptualism is no doubt the...

Tactically, conceptualism is no doubt the strongest position of the three; for the tired nominalist can lapse into conceptualism and still allay his puritanic conscience with the reflection that he has not quite taken to eating lotus with the Platonists.

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"Logic and the Reification of Universals"
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 5 days ago
Did you not read our articles...

Did you not read our articles about the June revolution, and was not the essence of the June revolution the essence of our paper? Why then your hypocritical phrases, your attempt to find an impossible pretext? We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.

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The final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung (18 May 1849)''Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, Vol. VI, p. 503
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 week ago
Time, which is the author of...

Time, which is the author of authors.

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Book I, iv, 12
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 2 days ago
Miniaturization doesn't actually make sense unless...

Miniaturization doesn't actually make sense unless you miniaturize the very atoms of which matter is composed. Otherwise a tiny brain in a man the size of an insect, composed of normal atoms, is composed of too few atoms for the miniaturized man to be any more intelligent than the ant. Also, miniaturizing atoms is impossible according to the rules of quantum mechanics.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 4 days ago
Each the herald is who wrote...

Each the herald is who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate.

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Astræa
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 2 weeks ago
The science of pure mathematics, in...

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

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Ch. 2: "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought", p. 28
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
Since every effort in our educational...

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 2 days ago
Don't turn back when you are...

Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

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Maxim 580
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 4 days ago
In order to correctly define art,...

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 5 days ago
The third kind of life is...

The third kind of life is the life of contemplation.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 5 days ago
Misfortune shows those who are not...

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
2 months ago
The general co-operation of all members...

The general co-operation of all members of society for the purpose of planned exploitation of the forces of production, the expansion of production to the point where it will satisfy the needs of all, the abolition of a situation in which the needs of some are satisfied at the expense of the needs of others, the complete liquidation of classes and their conflicts, the rounded development of the capacities of all members of society through the elimination of the present division of labor, through industrial education, through engaging in varying activities, through the participation by all in the enjoyments produced by all, through the combination of city and country - these are the main consequences of the abolition of private property.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 5 days ago
If conquest constitutes a natural right...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.

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The Abolition of Landed Property Letter to Robert Applegarth, 3 December 1869
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months ago
How can a past idea be...

How can a past idea be present?... it can only be going, infinitesimally past, less past than any assignable past date. We are thus brought to the conclusion that the present is connected to the past by a series of real infinitesimal steps.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month ago
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic...

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

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Is Science a Religion?, The Humanist
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
1 month 3 weeks ago
I think being a woman is...

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

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The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
I perfectly agree with your Lordship...

I perfectly agree with your Lordship too, that to crush the Industry of so great and so fine a province of the empire, in order to favour the monopoly of some particular towns in Scotland or England, is equally unjust and impolitic. The general opulence and improvement of Ireland might certainly, under proper management, afford much greater resources to the Government, than can ever be drawn from a few mercantile or manufacturing towns.

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Letter to Henry Dundas (1 November 1779), quoted in Adam Smith, The Correspondence of Adam Smith, eds. E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross (1987), p. 241
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René Descartes
René Descartes
3 months 1 week ago
I should like you to consider...

I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine's organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels.

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Descartes, Rene, L'Homme (The Treatise on Man) (1662) p. 108
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 5 days ago
It seems to me that the...

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 3 weeks ago
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 5 days ago
Man grows used to everything, the...

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 1 day ago
Believe me, there is no such...

Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 months 3 weeks ago
He who abhors and shuns the...

He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun, He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God, He who leads the good to wickedness, He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate, He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent, An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!

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Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 32, 10.
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