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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
6 days ago
Disneyland exists in order to hide...

Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 12
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 weeks 1 day ago
Labor is a commodity, like any...

Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition - as we shall see, the two come to the same thing - the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
God never sends evils…

God never sends evils.

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Ch. 12
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 2 days ago
Scientists try to eliminate their false...

Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer-whether animal or man-perishes with his false beliefs.

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Epistemology Without A Knowing Subject
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 weeks 5 days ago
It is the aim of public...

It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation. Law is the quality of the permanent provisions for making this aim effective.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
It is said that desire is...

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

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"Will, Freedom"
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
The most perfect ape cannot draw...

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
What can you ever really know...

What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbours or memories of what you have read in books.

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Book IV, Chapter 10, "Nice People or New Men"
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
But perhaps I lack the gift....

But perhaps I lack the gift. I see I've described her as being like a sword. That's true as far as it goes. But utterly inadequate by itself, and misleading. I ought to have said 'But also like a garden. Like a nest of gardens, wall within wall, hedge within hedge, more secret, more full of fragrant and fertile life, the further you explore.' And then, of her, and every created thing I praise, I should say 'in some way, in its unique way, like Him who made it.' Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 1 week ago
We are beggars…

We are beggars: this is true.

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"The Last Written Words of Luther," Table Talk No. 5468, (16 February 1546), in Dr. Martin Luthers Werke (1909) as translated by James A. Kellerman, Band 85 (TR 5) 317-318
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 2 weeks ago
When going to the temple to...

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month ago
A more or less superficial layer...

A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the "personal unconscious". But this personal layer rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper layer I call the "collective unconscious". I have chosen the term "collective" because this part of the unconscious is not individual but universal; in contrast to the personal psyche, it has contents and modes of behaviour that are more or less the same everywhere and in all individuals.

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p. 3-4
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
4 months 2 days ago
Well, some get lucky sometimes...
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
Who does not in some sort...

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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Book III, Ch. 10
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 4 days ago
The fate of the country does...

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

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"Slavery in Massachusetts", 1854
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
3 weeks 3 days ago
Men have been released from [concentration]...

Men have been released from [concentration] camps who have taken over the jargon of their jailers and with cold reason and mad consent (the price, as it were, of their survival) tell their story as if it could not have been otherwise than it was, contending that they have not been treated so badly after all.

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p. 45.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 weeks 5 days ago
The Great Beast is the only...

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry, the only ersatz of God, the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

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p. 121; footnote in Gravity and Grace
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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks 5 days ago
Because of your unbelief: for verily...

Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

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17:20-21 (KJV)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 1 day ago
I am not a visual person....

I am not a visual person. I have spent so many bounded years in my childhood that I have grown used to having books as my window on reality.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 days 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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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 2 weeks ago
Concern should drive us into action...

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

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The Collected Works of Karen Horney‎ (1957) by Karen Horney, p. 154: "We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 6 days ago
That which does not kill us...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 2 weeks ago
These reasonings are unconnected...

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

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(44).
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
By the ruler's cultivation of his...

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character, the duties of universal obligation are set forth. By honoring men of virtue and talents, he is preserved from errors of judgment.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 weeks 4 days ago
No reason can be given for...

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of all rationality.

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Ch. 11: "God", p. 250
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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 2 days ago
An individual who finds that he...

An individual who finds that he enjoys seeing others in positions of lesser liberty understands that he has no claim whatever to this enjoyment.

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Chapter I, Section 6, pg. 31
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 days ago
Better to have beasts that let...

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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Act 11, sc. 2
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 1 week ago
What song the Syrens sang, or...

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

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Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 1 week ago
For the first time in sixty...

For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 1 week ago
The French are ... the most...

The French are ... the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

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p. 245
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 4 days ago
Technology discloses the active relation of...

Technology discloses the active relation of man towards nature, as well as the direct process of production of his very life, and thereby the process of production of his basic societal relations, of his own mentality, and his images of society, too.

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Vol. I, Ch. 13: "Machinery and Big Industry".
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 4 days ago
If someone were to expound that...

If someone were to expound that godliness is to belong to childhood in the temporal sense and thus dwindle and die with the years as childhood does, is to be a happy frame of mind that cannot be preserved but only recollected; if someone were to expound that repentance as a weakness of old age accompanies the decline of one's powers, when the senses are dulled, when sleep no longer strengthens but increases lethargy-this would be ungodliness and foolishness.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks 5 days 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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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
When one compares the talents one...

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

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Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 678
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 days ago
They defend their errors as if...

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

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 6 days ago
It is mere illusion and pretty...
It is mere illusion and pretty sentiment to expect much from mankind if he forgets how to make war. And yet no means are known which call so much into action as a great war, that rough energy born of the camp, that deep impersonality born of hatred, that conscience born of murder and cold-bloodedness, that fervor born of effort of the annihilation of the enemy, that proud indifference to loss, to one's own existence, to that of one's fellows, to that earthquake-like soul-shaking that a people needs when it is losing its vitality.
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Parmenides
Parmenides
1 month 3 weeks ago
For it is the same thing...

For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.

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Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus, Enneads V, i.8
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 days ago
No feats of heroism are needed...

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion. And to accomplish this change no exertions of the mind are needed, nor the refutation of anything in existence, nor the invention of any extraordinary novelty; it is only needful that we should not succumb to the erroneous, already defunct, public opinion of the past, which governments have induced artificially; it is only needful that each individual should say what he really feels or thinks, or at least that he should not say what he does not think.

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Ch. 17
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 weeks 1 day ago
From the moment when labour can...

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolized, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say individuality vanishes.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 days ago
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and...

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 1 week ago
No man can justly censure or...

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

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Section 4
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 weeks 5 days ago
It is impossible to feel equal...

It is impossible to feel equal respect for things that are in fact unequal unless the respect is given to something that is identical in all of them. Men are unequal in all their relations with the things of this world, without exception. The only thing that is identical in all men is the presence of a link with the reality outside the world. All human beings are absolutely identical in so far as they can be thought of as consisting of a centre, which is an unquenchable desire for good, surrounded by an accretion of psychical and bodily matter.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 4 days ago
Christ speaks of two debtors, one...

Christ speaks of two debtors, one of whom owed much and the other little, and who both found forgiveness. He asks: Which of these two ought to love more? The answer: The one who has forgiven much. When you love much, you are forgiven much-and when you are forgiven much, you love much. See here the blessed recurrence of salvation in love!

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in...

Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in the state carriage of Yau,Wear the ceremonial cap of Chan,Let the music be the Shiu with its pantomimes.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Just now
Ignorance, to a scientist, is an...

Ignorance, to a scientist, is an itch that begs to be pleasurably scratched. Ignorance, if you are a theologian, is something to be washed away by shamelessly making something up.

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The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
I believe that man is in...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 days ago
You have theories enough concerning the...

You have theories enough concerning the Rights of Men. It may not be amiss to add a small degree of attention to their Nature and disposition.

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Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November 1789), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 46
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 1 day ago
The ideal of Morality has no...

The ideal of Morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest Strength, of most powerful life; which also has been named (very falsely as it was there meant) the ideal of poetic greatness. It is the maximum of the savage; and has, in these times, gained, precisely among the greatest weaklings, very many proselytes. By this ideal, man becomes a Beast-Spirit, a Mixture; whose brutal wit has, for weaklings, a brutal power of attraction.

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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 1 day ago
Man consists in Truth. If he...

Man consists in Truth. If he exposes Truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays Truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against Conviction.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
2 months 1 week ago
No Man is wise at all...

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

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The Alchymyst, in Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.
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