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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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What is commonly called friendship even...

What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 95
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
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There are some remedies worse than...

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

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Maxim 301
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 3 weeks ago
Above all do not forget your...

Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself; do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superflous in the obtruse eyes of a busy world, above all, do not permit this to deprive you of your idea of yourself, as if your life, if lived in inwardness, did not have just as much meaning and worth as that of any human being in the eyes of all-wise Governance, and considerably more than the busy, busiest haste of busy-ness - busy with wasting life and losing itself.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 week 4 days ago
If a well were sunk at...

If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are all familiar as "chalk".

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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 1 week ago
To one commending an orator for...

To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."

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Of Agesilaus the Great
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
You don't choose universality....
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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 3 weeks ago
Mark what 'tis his mind aims...

Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
1 month 1 week ago
As an empiricist I continue to...

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries-not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conception only as cultural posits. The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of experience.

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"Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
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George Santayana
George Santayana
1 month 2 weeks ago
Although a poem be not made...

Although a poem be not made by counting of syllables upon the fingers, yet "numbers" is the most poetical synonym we have for verse, and "measure" the most significant equivalent for beauty, for goodness, and perhaps even for truth. Those early and profound philosophers, the followers of Pythagoras, saw the essence of all things in number, and it was by weight, measure, and number, as we read in the Bible, that the Creator first brought Nature out of the void.

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Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), p. 251
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 3 weeks ago
A fool with a heart and...

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

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Part 1, Chapter 7
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 2 days ago
Manuscript culture is conversational if only...

Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance.

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(p. 96)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
In fact, contempt for happiness is...

In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

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p. 198
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 weeks ago
The people never give up their...

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
When I happen to be busy,...

When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
When will the world learn that...

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8 June 1843
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 1 week ago
Physiology does not teach us how...

Physiology does not teach us how to digest, nor logic how to discourse, nor esthetics how to feel beauty or express it, nor ethics how to be good. And indeed it is well if they do not teach us how to be hypocrites; for pedantry, whether it be pedantry of logic, or of esthetics, or of ethics, is at bottom nothing but hypocrisy.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Old age, after all, is merely...

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 4 weeks ago
If a workman can conveniently spare...

If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.

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Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 951.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
All the time that he can...

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

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Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties, 1956
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Like great works, deep feelings always...

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 3 weeks ago
Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge...

Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things about me which no one knew of. I wanted to find out whether other people had undergone similar experiences. I never succeeded in discovering so much as a trace of them in others. As a result, I had the feeling that I was either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.

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p. 41
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 weeks 2 days ago
Familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
2 months 2 weeks ago
The bourgeois public sphere may be...

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
The South has conquered nothing -...

The South has conquered nothing - but a graveyard.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 4 days ago
Hurl your calumnies…

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
What are the earth and all...

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
But if the labourers could live...

But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.

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Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg. 657.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Fate is not in man but...

Fate is not in man but around him.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 3 weeks ago
The true is the whole…

The true is the whole.

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Preface
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
Throughout history there have been peasant...

Throughout history there have been peasant rebellions which have followed always the same course. Blindly, the peasants sacked and destroyed, and when members of the "upper classes" fell into their hands, they killed ruthlessly and cruelly, for never in their lives had they been taught gentleness and mercy by those now in their power.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
How I wish I didn't know...

How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!

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Empedocles
Empedocles
2 months 2 weeks ago
And I will tell you something….

And I will tell you something else: there is no birth of all mortal things, nor any end in wretched death, but only a mixing and dissolution of mixtures; 'birth' is so called on the part of mankind.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 2 days ago
The Age of Writing has passed....

The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings.

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(p. 14)
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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 3 weeks ago
There cannot any one moral Rule...

There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

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Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 2 days ago
The more you make people alike,...

The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity.

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(p. 135)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
The best way to describe anyone...

The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 3 weeks ago
At the present time a serious,...

At the present time a serious, strong state can have but one sound foundation - military and bureaucratic centralization. Between a monarchy and the most democratic republic there is only one essential difference: in the former, the world of officialdom oppresses and robs the people for the greater profit of the privileged and propertied classes, as well as to line its own pockets, in the name of the monarch; in the latter, it oppresses and robs the people in exactly the same way, for the benefit of the same classes and the same pockets, but in the name of the people's will. In a republic a fictitious people, the "legal nation" supposedly represented by the state, smothers the real, live people. But it will scarcely be any easier on the people if the cudgel with which they are beaten is called the people's cudgel.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 4 days ago
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth...

Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

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Book II
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 1 day ago
How shall the dead arise, is...

How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.

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Section 48
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 4 weeks ago
Among civilized and thriving nations, on...

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2.
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 3 weeks ago
The art of writing books is...

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

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Fragment No. 114
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 2 days ago
Your god is too small. Attributed...

Your god is too small.

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Attributed to Bruno in episode 1 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014). Earliest use of this phrase appears to be in Your God is Too Small (1961) by English priest John Bertram Phillips.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
Every man would like to be...

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

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Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power
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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 1 week ago
The moment we choose to love...

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 1 week ago
Five [of the above] rules are...

Five [of the above] rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.

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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
3 weeks 6 days ago
The ethical stand of nonviolence has...

The ethical stand of nonviolence has to be linked to a commitment to radical equality. And more specifically, the practice of nonviolence requires an opposition to biopolitical forms of racism and war logics that regularly distinguish lives worth safeguarding from those that are not-populations conceived as collateral damage, or as obstructions to policy and military aims.

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p. 62
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 2 days ago
The newspaper is a corporate symbolist...

The newspaper is a corporate symbolist poem, environmental and invisible, as poem.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
There remains the final reflection, how...

There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

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Preface, p. 16 (Corrected Edition)
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 3 weeks ago
The new education must consist essentially...

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

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Addresses to the German Nation (1807), Second Address : "The General Nature of the New Education". Chicago and London, The Open Court Publishing Company, 1922, p. 20.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
Epochs do not rise from the...

Epochs do not rise from the dead.... [W]hereas you can make a replica of an ancient statue, there is no possible replica of an ancient state of mind. There can be no nearer approximation than that which a masquerade bears to real life. There may be understanding of the past, but there is a difference between the modern and the ancient reactions to the same stimuli.

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Ch. 9: "Science and Philosophy", p. 194
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