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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
2 weeks 5 days ago
The highest and ultimate personality values...

The highest and ultimate personality values are declared to be independent of contrasts like rich and poor, healthy and sick, etc. The world had become accustomed to considering the social hierarchy, based on status, wealth, vital strength, and power, as an exact image of the ultimate values of morality and personality. The only way to disclose the discovery of anew and higher sphere of being and life, of the "kingdom of God" whose order is independent of that worldly and vital hierarchy, was to stress the vanity of the old values in this higher order.

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L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 98
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is better...

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 2 days ago
The difference between the most dissimilar...

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

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Chapter II, p. 17.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 3 weeks ago
Every story of conversion is the...

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

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Foreword to Joy Davidman's Smoke on the Mountain, 1954
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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
2 weeks 6 days ago
The very desire for guarantees that...

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks ago
Unto whomsoever much is given, of...

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 week ago
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems,...

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

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p. 53.
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
4 weeks ago
Old forms of government finally grow...

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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On Manners and Fashion
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 4 weeks ago
Undoubtedly we have no questions to...

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

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Introduction
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 4 weeks ago
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in...

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

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Vol. II, Ch. XV, p. 285.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 weeks ago
For it is the chief characteristic...

For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months ago
When at first thought we think...

When at first thought we think of a creator our ideas appear to us undefined and confused; but if we reason philosophically, those ideas can be easily arranged and simplified. It is a Being, whose power is equal to his will.

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A Discourse, &c. &c.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 4 weeks ago
He is great who is what...

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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Uses of Great Men
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 1 week ago
Neither did the dispensation of God...

Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into the world; for our Saviour himself did first show His power to subdue ignorance, by His conference with the priests and doctors of the law, before He showed His power to subdue nature by His miracles. And the coming of this Holy Spirit was chiefly figured and expressed in the similitude and gift of tongues, which are but vehicula scientiæ.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 4 weeks ago
Each piece of money is a...

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

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Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2(c), pg. 145.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 3 weeks ago
I call this Divine humility because...

I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is "nothing better" now to be had.

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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 weeks 5 days ago
To win a truly great life...

To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.

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"Our Reply" (September 1945), as published in A Land of Two Peoples : Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs (1983) edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, p. 178
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
2 weeks ago
Philosophy ... must not bargain away...

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 4 weeks ago
If, when a man writes a...

If, when a man writes a poem or commits a murder, the bodily movements involved in his act result solely from physical causes, it would seem absurd to put up a statue to him in the one case and to hang him in the other.

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"The Doctrine of Free Will"
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 6 days ago
The Clergy is the greatest hindrance...

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 3 weeks ago
If we cannot "practice the presence...

If we cannot "practice the presence of God," it is something to practice the absence of God, to become increasingly aware of our unawareness till we feel like man who should stand beside a great cataract and hear no noise, or like a man in a story who looks in a mirror and finds no face there, or a man in a dream who stretches his hand to visible objects and gets no sensation of touch. To know that one is dreaming is to no longer be perfectly asleep. Bur for news of the fully waking world you must go to my betters.

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"Charity"
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
2 weeks 5 days 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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William James
William James
1 month 4 weeks ago
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance...

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

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"The Importance of Individuals"
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 4 weeks ago
Deep within every human being there...

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Just now
Where is home? I've wondered where...

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

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As quoted in "The World according to Kurt" in Globe and Mail [Toronto]
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 4 weeks ago
Private property has made us so...

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it - when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., - in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property - labour and conversion into capital. In place of all these physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses - the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world.

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p. 87, The Marx-Engels Reader
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 week 4 days ago
Often what is absent has more...

Often what is absent has more power than what is present.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 2 days ago
We do not, however, reckon that...

We do not, however, reckon that trade disadvantageous which consists in the exchange of the hard-ware of England for the wines of France;and yet hard-ware is a very durable commodity, and were it not for this continual exportation, might too be accumulated for ages together, to the incredible augmentation of the pots and pans of the country. But it readily occurs that the number of such utensils is in every country necessarily limited by the use which there is for them;that it would be absurd to have more pots and pans than were necessary for cooking the victuals usually consumed there;and that if the quantity of victuals were to increase, the number of pots and pans would readily increase along with it, apart of the increased quantity of victuals being employed in purchasing them, or in maintaining an additional number of workman whose business it was to make them.

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Chapter I, p. 471.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
One disgust, then another...

One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
You can live, provided you live;...

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

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229H:3:2
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 4 weeks ago
The State is a collection of...

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

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Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 3 weeks ago
Do not allow your dreams of...

Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now.

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p. 485
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 weeks 1 day ago
I tell you again that the...

I tell you again that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the Queen of France in the year 1774 and the contrast between that brilliancy, Splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate Homage of a Nation to her, compared with the abominable Scene of 1789 which I was describing did draw Tears from me and wetted my Paper. These Tears came again into my Eyes almost as often as I lookd at the description. They may again. You do not believe this fact, or that these are my real feelings, but that the whole is affected, or as you express it, 'downright Foppery'. My friend, I tell you it is truth-and that it is true, and will be true, when you and I are no more, and will exist as long as men-with their Natural feelings exist.

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Letter to Philip Francis (20 February 1790), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 91
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 week 4 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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William James
William James
1 month 4 weeks ago
It makes a tremendous emotional and...

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

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Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 4 weeks ago
As there is a use in...

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Power
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 4 weeks ago
There is no one at the...

There is no one at the Communion table who retains against you even the least of your sins, no one, unless you yourself do it. So cast them away from yourself, and the recollection of them, lest in it your retain them; and cast the recollection of your having cast your sins away, lest in it you retain them.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 5 days ago
Religions are not true or false....
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Horace
Horace
1 month 2 weeks ago
He will through life….

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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Book III, ode xxix, line 41
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 weeks ago
To those whose talents are...

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 6 days ago
Through faith we are restored to...

Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew.

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p. 74
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
4 weeks ago
Originally, ethics has no existence apart...

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

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Ch. 1, The Confusion of Ethical Thought
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 4 weeks ago
Thee might observe incidentally that if...

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child - this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

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Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894); published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884-1914)
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 3 weeks ago
Eating and reading are two pleasures...

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 1 day ago
What I do not like about...

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
1 month 3 weeks ago
At the end of Being and...

At the end of Being and Nothingness, ... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, itself was linked up to itself, relating and appearing to itself, by means of the essential project of human-reality. What was named in this way, in an allegedly neutral and undetermined way, was nothing other than the metaphysical unity of man and God, the relation of man to God, the project of becoming God as the project constituting human-reality. Atheism changes nothing in this fundamental structure.

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Chicago, 1982. (original French published in Paris, 1972, as Marges de la philosophie). p. 116
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 weeks 4 days ago
Naturally, every age thinks that all...

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

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William James
William James
1 month 4 weeks ago
Real culture lives by sympathies and...

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain - under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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The Social Value of the College-Bred
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months ago
All the cruelty and torment of...

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 14, § 164
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 4 weeks ago
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity....

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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Those Barren Leaves, 1925
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