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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 1 day ago
I would really like to slow...

I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 weeks ago
Not to be a proud and...

Not to be a proud and haughty person, you have to follow the old proverb and "know thyself." That is to say, you must regard your special talents, whatever beauty or fame you have, as gifts from God, and not as things you earned for yourself. Whatever is low and mean is not God's doing, however. Here you can only blame yourself. Remember the squalor of your birth and how naked and poor you were when you crawled into the light of day like a little animal.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 week 6 days ago
What modern apologists call 'true' Christianity...

What modern apologists call 'true' Christianity is something depending upon a very selective process. It ignores much that is to be found in the Gospels: for example, the parable of the sheep and the goats, and the doctrine that the wicked will suffer eternal torment in Hell fire. It picks out certain parts of the Sermon on the Mount, though even these it often rejects in practice. It leaves the doctrine of non-resistance, for example, to be practised only by non-Christians such as Gandhi. The precepts that it particularly favours are held to embody such a lofty morality that they must have had a divine origin. And yet ... these precepts were uttered by Jews before the time of Christ.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 1 day ago
If a person tells me he...

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
5 months 4 days ago
A common goal...
Issue:

Because of subgrouping, physical separation, different types of genetics and other cultural factors, as well as limited isolation people subjectively deviate from their universal human necessity. They become aware of it when they are exposed to difference regularly.

Solution:

With controlled information delivery, as well as a clear ideological goal like universality, we can clear away the noise of chaos to understand deterministic goals directly.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 weeks 6 days ago
The world is but a perpetual...

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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Horace
Horace
2 days ago
To have a great man…

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 weeks ago
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance...

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime. Public Good

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Democritus
Democritus
2 days ago
The hopes of the right-minded may...

The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 week 5 days ago
Because machines could be made progressively...

Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement. Attention and allegiance came to be paid, not to Eternity, but to the Utopian future. External circumstances came to be regarded as more important than states of mind about external circumstances, and the end of human life was held to be action, with contemplation as a means to that end. These false and historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life. And so effective has been the propaganda that even professing Christians accept the heresy unquestioningly and are quite unconscious of its complete incompatibility with their own or anybody else's religion.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
1 month 1 week ago
[I]t is impossible that each of...

[I]t is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 1 day ago
What I give is the morphology...

What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1 month 1 week ago
The greatest saving one can make...

The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world and to pay attention to man.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 weeks ago
A book can never be anything...

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author's thoughts [Ein Buch kann nie mehr seyn, als der Abdruck der Gedanken des Verfassers]. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter - that is to say, what he has thought about it.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
But Sunday is the day on...

But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because ... Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration. The first apology of Justin, chapter LXVII. c156AD. In ANF1, that is, Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1.

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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
2 days ago
Thought is something limitless and independent,...

Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 week 6 days ago
I trust that some may be...

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
1 month 1 week ago
Take a book, the poorest one...

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 week 6 days ago
Even the death of Friends will...

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 week 5 days 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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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 weeks ago
Prejudice is an opinion…

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 weeks ago
In regione caecorum rex est luscus....

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
1 month 1 week ago
Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic....

Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly, all men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves and to attack others.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 week 6 days ago
Free in this world as the...

Free in this world as the birds in the air, disengaged from every kind of chains, those who have practiced the Yoga gather in Brahmin the certain fruit of their works. Depend upon it; rude and careless as I am, I would fain practice the yoga faithfully. This Yogi, absorbed in contemplation, contributes in his degree to creation; he breathes a divine perfume, he heard wonderful things. Divine forms traverse him without tearing him and he goes, he acts as animating original matter. To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a Yogi.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 weeks 6 days ago
The most manifest sign of wisdom...

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 week ago
Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the...

Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 weeks 6 days ago
No man is exempt from saying...

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 week 6 days ago
Without effort and change, human life...

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 weeks 2 days ago
Although the whole of this life...

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The Church, though dispersed throughout the...

The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: [She believes] in ... God, the Father Almighty, ... and in ... Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father ... and that He should execute just judgment towards all.... Irenaeus Against Heresies, book 1: chapter 10: paragraph 1 (1:10:1). At page 330 of ANF1, that is, Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1. [c 185 AD.] [The Nicene Creed, effectively. Cf 3:4:2 p417. Cf 5:20:1 p548.]

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 weeks ago
Philosophy of religion ... really amounts...

Philosophy of religion ... really amounts to ... philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 weeks ago
Wealth is like sea-water; the more...

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 week 5 days ago
Every crusader is apt to go...

Every crusader is apt to go mad. He is haunted by the wickedness which he attributes to his enemies; it becomes in some sort a part of him.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
2 weeks 3 days ago
No man's error becomes his own...

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The victor and the one who...

The victor and the one who keeps My works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations— and He will shepherd them with an iron scepter; He will shatter them like pottery— just as I have received [this] from My Father. Revelation 2:26-27

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 weeks 6 days ago
In Matthew 12:23 Christ says: "Either...

In Matthew 12:23 Christ says: "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad and its fruit bad," as if to say: "Let the one who wishes to have good fruit begin by planting a good tree." Therefore, let the person who wishes to do good works being not with the works but with the believing, for this alone makes a person good.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
2 days ago
It's a royal privilege…

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 weeks ago
The animals are much more content...

The animals are much more content with mere existence than we are; the plants are wholly so; and man is so according to how dull and insensitive he is. The animal's life consequently contains less suffering but also less pleasure than the human's, the direct reason being that on the one hand it is free from care and anxiety and the torments that attend them, but on the other is without hope and therefore has no share in that anticipation of a happy future which, together with the enchanting products of the imagination which accompany it, is the source of most of our greatest joys and pleasures. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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Plato
Plato
1 month 1 week ago
If anyone, with his mind...

Parmenides: If anyone, with his mind fixed on all these objections and others like them, denies the existence of ideas of things, and does not assume an idea under which each individual thing is classed, he will be quite at a loss, since he denies that the idea of each thing is always the same, and in this way he will utterly destroy the power of carrying on discussion... Then what will become of philosophy? To what can you turn, if these things are unknown?

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 week 6 days ago
The camera is as subjective as...

The camera is as subjective as we are.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 1 day ago
Is it just I who cannot...

Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
If only it were true...
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
1 month 1 week ago
I may live for thirty years,...

I may live for thirty years, or perhaps forty, or maybe just one day: therefore I have resolved to use this day, or whatever I have to say in these thirty years or whatever I have to say this one day I may have to live - I have resolved to use it in such a way that if not one day in my whole past life has been used well, this one by the help of God will be.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 week 6 days ago
It might be plausibly maintained, that...

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
1 month 2 days ago
Since it is every man's interest...

Since it is every man's interest to be happy through the whole of life, it is the wisdom of every one to employ philosophy in the search of felicity without delay; and there cannot be a greater folly, than to be always beginning to live.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 week 5 days ago
Shall I tell you the secret...

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master at some point, and in that, I learn of him.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 weeks ago
As to the people; in all...

As to the people; in all these countries the greater part of the people certainly detest war, and most devoutly wish for peace. A very few of them, indeed, whose unnatural happiness depends upon the public misery, may wish for war; but be it yours to decide, whether it is equitable or not, that the unprincipled selfishness of such wretches should have more weight than the anxious wishes of all good men united.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
2 weeks 1 day ago
Our island is this earth; and...

Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
They need not depart; give ye...

They need not depart; give ye them to eat. 14:16 (KJV)

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
2 weeks 6 days ago
A prudent man…

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.

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