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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 week 5 days ago
The force that had been lent...

The force that had been lent my father he honorably expended in manful well-doing. A portion of this planet bears beneficent traces of his strong hand and strong head. Nothing that he undertook to do but he did it faithfully and like a true man. I shall look on the houses he built with a certain proud interest. They stand firm and sound to the heart all over his little district.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 2 weeks ago
The domination of the public way...

The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."

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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
2 weeks 3 days ago
Where all think alike, no one...

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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Ch. IV: "The Line of Least Resistance", p. 51
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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
2 weeks 2 days ago
Beginning in the 1970s, however, the...

Beginning in the 1970s, however, the techniques and organizational form of industrial production shifted toward smaller and more mobile labor units and more flexible structures of production, a shift often labeled as a move from Fordist to post-Fordist production.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 3 weeks ago
Freedom and not servitude is the...

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 3 weeks ago
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions...

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 2 weeks ago
The Geschick of being: a child...

The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aiôn? It plays, because it plays. The "because" withers away in the play. The play is without "why." It plays since it plays. It simply remains a play: the most elevated and the most profound. But this "simply" is everything, the one, the only... The question remains whether and how we, hearing the movements of this play, play along and accommodate ourselves to the play.

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The Principle of Reason (1955-1956) as translated by Reginald Lilly
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 3 weeks ago
But the Quincunx of Heaven runs...

But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge. We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasmes of sleep, which often continueth præcogitations; making Cables of Cobwebbes and Wildernesses of handsome Groves. Beside Hippocrates hath spoke so little and the Oneirocriticall Masters, have left such frigid Interpretations from plants, that there is little encouragement to dream of Paradise it self. Nor will the sweetest delight of Gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dulnesse of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the Bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose.

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Ch. 5
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 4 weeks ago
He who remembers the evils he...

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

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Ch. 13
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
2 months 1 week ago
The Value or WORTH of a...

The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power...

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The First Part, Chapter 10, p. 42
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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman
1 month 1 week ago
Whenever you say anything good about...

Whenever you say anything good about East Germany, immediately somebody jumps up and says, "My God, you're a Stalinist..." I'm not defending everything about it, of course. But I laboured on the chapter that talks about the east. I fact-checked it; I had somebody else fact-check it. I knew that I was going to get a lot of flak for that. But in the beginning, East Germany did a better job. They just did.

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From an interview with Alex Clark, as cited in "Nazism, slavery, empire: can countries learn from national evil?", The Guardian
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 months 2 weeks ago
He who must still exhort himself,...

He who must still exhort himself, and be exhorted, to will the good, has as yet no firm and ever-ready will, but wills a will anew every time he needs it. But he who has such a stable will, wills what he wills for ever, and cannot under any circumstances will otherwise than he always wills. For him freedom of the will is destroyed and swallowed up in necessity.

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General Nature of New Eduction p 21
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 months 1 week ago
As the oil is in the...

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 3 weeks ago
The progress from an absolute to...

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 3 weeks ago
Men of learning are those who...

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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"Thinking for Oneself"
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 5 days ago
Buddhism is the most colossal example...

Buddhism is the most colossal example in the history of applied metaphysics.

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in Verhoeven, Martin J. 2001. "Buddhism and Science: Probing the Boundaries Of Faith and Reason." Religion East and West (1): 77-97.
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 1 week ago
The way in which a society...

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 1 week ago
I am the door: by me...

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

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10:9-11
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
5 days ago
Imagine that nature is saying to...

Imagine that nature is saying to us: "Those things of which you complain are the same for all. I cannot give anything easier to any man, but whoever wishes will make things easier for himself." In what way? By equanimity. You must suffer pain, and thirst, and hunger, and old age too, if a longer stay among men shall be granted you; you must be sick, and you must suffer loss and death.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
5 days ago
Or, if you enjoy living with...

Or, if you enjoy living with Greeks also, spend your time with Socrates and with Zeno: the former will show you how to die if it be necessary; the latter how to die before it is necessary. Live with Chrysippus, with Posidonius: they will make you acquainted with things earthly and things heavenly; they will bid you work hard over something more than neat turns of language and phrases mouthed forth for the entertainment of listeners; they will bid you be stout of heart and rise superior to threats. The only harbour safe from the seething storms of this life is scorn of the future, a firm stand, a readiness to receive Fortune's missiles full in the breast, neither skulking nor turning the back.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 months 1 week ago
Being summoned by the Athenians out...

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
2 months 2 weeks ago
All presentation, all demonstration-and the presentation...

All presentation, all demonstration-and the presentation of thought is demonstration-has, according to its original determination-and this is all that matters to us-the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.

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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
The first premise of all human...

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

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Volume I; Part 1; "Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook"; Section A, "Idealism and Materialism".
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
1 day ago
Symmetry is a vast subject, significant...

Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect.

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Symmetry
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
2 weeks ago
We do not have and cannot...

We do not have and cannot have any means of discovering whether or not we are carried along in a uniform motion of translation.

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L'état actuel et l'avenir de la physique mathematique
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John Searle
John Searle
1 month 3 weeks ago
I want to block some common...

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 3 weeks ago
Popery so threatens and so nearly...

Popery so threatens and so nearly surrounds us...every sober man would think it seasonable at this time that all dissenting Protestants should be brought to a good understanding and compliance one with another...I think all Protestants ought now by all ways to be stirred up against them [Catholics] as People that have declared themselves ready by blood, violence, and destruction to ruine our Religion and Government...[they] are nothing but either Enemys in our bowells or spies among us, whilst their General commanders whom they blindly obey declare warr, and an unalterable designe to destroy us.

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Critical Notes Upon Edward Stillingfleet's Mischief and Unreasonableness of Separation' (c. May 1681), quoted in John Marshall, John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 110
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 2 weeks ago
He who is bent on doing...

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

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Maxim 459
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 weeks ago
As a philosopher, if I were...

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

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"Proof of God"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy,...

I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
5 days ago
We are weak, watery beings standing...

We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 week 5 days ago
It is no longer the moral,...

It is no longer the moral, religious, spiritual condition of the people that is our concern, but their physical, practical, economical condition, as regulated by public laws.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 1 week ago
It's a waste of energy...
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
3 months 2 days ago
Sobriety is the strength of the...

Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.

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As quoted in The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century (1819) by William Enfield Sobriety is the strength of the mind
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 1 week ago
Why trouble ye the woman? for...

Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

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26:10-13 (KJV)
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 3 weeks ago
When we consider the being and...

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death; for nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

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Introductory Epistle
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
We understand God by everything in...

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 2 weeks ago
Necessity makes a joke of civilization....

Necessity makes a joke of civilization.

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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 1 week ago
The superior man, while there is...

The superior man, while there is anything he has not studied, or while in what he has studied there is anything he cannot understand, Will not intermit his labor. While there is anything he has not inquired about, or anything in what he has inquired about which he does not know, he will not intermit his labor. While there is anything which he has not reflected on, or anything in what he has reflected on which he does not apprehend, he will not intermit his labor. While there is anything which he has not discriminated or his discrimination is not clear, he will not intermit his labor. If there be anything which he has not practiced, or his practice fails in earnestness, he will not intermit his labor. If another man succeed by one effort, he will use a hundred efforts. If another man succeed by ten efforts, he will use a thousand. Let a man proceed in this way, and, though dull, he will surely become intelligent; though weak, he will surely become strong.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
2 months 2 weeks ago
It cannot but happen that those...

It cannot but happen that those individuals whose functions are most out of equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces, will be those to die; and that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces. But this survival of the fittest, implies multiplication of the fittest. Out of the fittest thus multiplied, there will, as before, be an overthrowing of the moving equilibrium wherever it presents the least opposing force to the new incident force.

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The Principles of Biology, Vol. I (1864), Part III: The Evolution of Life, Ch. 7: Indirect Equilibration
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 1 week ago
He that is without sin among...

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

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8:7 (King James Version)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 weeks ago
Thee will find out in time...

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

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Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894). Smith was a Quaker, thus the archaic use of "Thee" in this and other letters to her.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 month 3 weeks ago
I urge you to please notice...

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

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Knowing What's Nice, an essay from In These Times
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Let a fool hold….

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

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Maxim 914
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that...

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

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Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734.
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
3 months 3 weeks ago
Even in the games…

Even in the games of children there are things to interest the greatest mathematician.

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1688-1690
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
Long before physics or psychology were...

Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
3 months 1 week ago
Virtue is the same…

Virtue is the same for a man and for a woman.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 6 days ago
Ira festuca est, odium trabes est....

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

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58 Alternate versions: Anger is a stem, hate is a trunk. Anger is the mote, hate is the beam.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 3 weeks ago
A gentleman, even if he loses...

A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

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