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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 week 4 days ago
Few persons care to study logic,...

Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men. We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.

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Illustrations of the Logic of Science First Paper - The Fixation of Belief", in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12
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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 3 days ago
When Darius offered him ten thousand...

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 week 4 days ago
It is no longer a question...

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

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Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 weeks 6 days ago
Jacques said that his master said...

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

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Prologue
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
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By relieving the brain of all...

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race..

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 weeks 6 days ago
There is no good father who...

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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No. 51
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 2 weeks ago
The philosophy of nature must not...

The philosophy of nature must not be unduly terrestrial; for it, the earth is merely one of the smaller planets of one of the smaller stars of the Milky Way. It would be ridiculous to warp the philosophy of nature in order to bring out results that are pleasing to the tiny parasites of this insignificant planet. Vitalism as a philosophy, and evolutionism, show, in this respect, a lack of sense of proportion and logical relevance. They regard the facts of life, which are personally interesting to us, as having a cosmic significance, not a significance confined to the earth's surface. Optimism and pessimism, as cosmic philosophies, show the same naive humanism; the great world, so far as we know it from the philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance and are best corrected by a little astronomy.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
Nicias, do you think you can...

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

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King Aegistheus, Act 2
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 2 weeks ago
A Roman emperor sitting at the...

A Roman emperor sitting at the table surrounded by his bodyguard is a magnificent sight, but when the reason is fear, the magnificence pales. So also when the individual does not dare stand taciturnly by his word, does not stand freely and confidently on the pedestal of a conscious act, but is surrounded by a host of deliberations before and after that render him incapable of getting his eye on the action.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 2 weeks ago
Cure the drunkard, heal the insane,...

Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debaucher of sentiment?

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p. 236
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 4 days ago
No one should try to live...

No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 3 weeks ago
I live from day to day,...

I live from day to day, and content myself with having enough to meet my present and ordinary needs; for the extraordinary, all the provision in the world could not suffice.

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Ch. 14
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
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Most human beings have an almost...

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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"Variations on a Philosopher" in Themes and Variations, 1950
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 4 days ago
As soon as one returns to...

As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 week 1 day ago
Are not five sparrows sold for...

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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12:6-7
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 weeks 2 days ago
They had no temples, but they...

They had no temples, but they had a real living and uninterrupted sense of oneness with the whole of the universe; they had no creed, but they had a certain knowledge that when their earthly joy had reached the limits of earthly nature, then there would come for them, for the living and for the dead, a still greater fullness of contact with the whole of the universe. They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
2 days ago
The Pope will make the king...

The Pope will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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No. 24. (Rica writing to Ibben)
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 1 week ago
Happiness implied a choice, and within...

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 weeks ago
The Apostle Paul wants us to...

The Apostle Paul wants us to work with our hands in order to share with the needy (Ephesians 5:28). Notice that he could have said that we should work to support ourselves. But Paul says that we work to give to those in need. This is why caring for our body is also a Christian work. If the body is healthy and fit, we are able to work and save money that can be used to help those in need.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 2 weeks ago
A man who has trained himself...

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

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Ch. 14, p. 333 [2012 reprint]
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
6 days ago
No one is guiltless...But no one...

No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
3 weeks 1 day ago
Time is the father of truth,...

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

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Quote as translated in The Encyclopedia of Religion Vol. 11 (1987), by Mircea Eliade, p. 459
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 1 week ago
Predicting the future is a hopeless,...

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
1 week 1 day ago
Let a man once overcome his...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
1 month 2 weeks ago
The law of progress holds that...

The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don't you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured.

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Interview with French writer Roger Errera in New York Review of Books
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 2 weeks ago
Scott does this still better than...

Scott does this still better than Wordsworth, and a very second-rate landscape does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of. In them I seemed to draw from a Source of inward joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings; which had no connexion with struggle or imperfection, but would be made richer by every improvement in the physical or social condition of mankind. From them I seemed to learn what would be the perennial sources of happiness, when all the greater evils of life shall have been removed. And I felt myself at once better and happier as I came under their influence.

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(pp. 147-148)
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Epicurus
Epicurus
2 months 5 days ago
Is God willing to prevent evil,...

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 2 weeks ago
I believe that the abolition of...

I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

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Ch. VI: International relations, p. 99
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 weeks ago
Sleep is a death; oh, make...

Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed.

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Section 12
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 5 days ago
There is the love of...

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 5 days ago
The Superior Man has nothing...

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks (or has [the winner] drink) the ritual cup. Note: Bowing is a courtesy for the host who invites him as well drinking a cup.

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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
6 days ago
The concept of guilt is found...

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: ... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 5 days ago
Who does not...
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
1 day ago
The life of Berdyaev spans the...

The life of Berdyaev spans the momentous events of the first half of the twentieth century in Europe. He was no ivory tower philosopher but was intimately affected by these events throughout his life and drew his inspirations from them regarding the nature of the human condition. His writings bear the imprint of the catastrophic situations within which he was destined to live.

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Richard Schain, in In Love with Eternity : Philosophical Essays and Fragments (2005), Ch. 7 : Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev - A Champion of the Spirit, p. 43
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 week 6 days ago
Every state, like every theology, assumes...

Every state, like every theology, assumes man to be fundamentally bad and wicked.

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As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is an offensive, directed against...

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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p. 102.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 2 weeks ago
The victory of vivisection marks a...

The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.

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"Vivisection" (1947), p. 228
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 week 4 days ago
It is ...easy to be certain....

It is ...easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

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Vol. IV, par. 237
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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
1 week 5 days ago
If now I...say "Stealing money is...

If now I...say "Stealing money is wrong," I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning - that is, expresses no proposition which can be either true or false. It is as if I had written "Stealing money!!" - where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is being expressed.

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
5 months 3 weeks ago
Throwing away the veils

In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology - that developed by the Frankfurt School, for example - it is not just a question of seeing things (that is, social reality) as they 'really are," of throwing away the distorting spectacles of ideology; the main point is to see how the reality itself cannot reproduce itself without this so-called ideological mystification. The mask is not simply hiding the real state of things; the ideological distortion is written into its very essence... the moment we see it 'as it really is,' this being dissolves itself into nothingness or, more precisely, it changes into another kind of reality. That is why we must avoid simple metaphors of demasking, of throwing away the veils which are supposed to hide the naked reality.

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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 2 weeks ago
The only thing we are naturally...

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 2 days ago
When he entered into the Whig...

When he entered into the Whig party, he did not conceive that they pretended to any discoveries. They did not affect to be better Whigs, than those were who lived in the days in which principle was put to the test. Some of the Whigs of those days were then living. They were what the Whigs had been at the Revolution; what they had been during the reign of queen Anne; what they had been at the accession of the present royal family.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 2 days ago
And having looked to Government for...

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 4 days ago
"I am like a broken puppet...

"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 1 week ago
An atom blaster is a good...

An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 2 weeks ago
Moreover, if the character is formed,...

Moreover, if the character is formed, and the mind made up, on the few cardinal points of human opinion, agreement of conviction and feeling on these, has been felt in all times to be an essential requisite of anything worthy the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more whose intimacy, I now voluntarily sought.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 weeks 3 days ago
The Housing Crisis is Intentional

Housing scarcity drives up prices, which benefits landlords and developers. Empty homes outnumber homeless people, but homelessness persists because housing is treated as investment commodity, not human necessity. The housing crisis is manufactured by those who profit from artificial scarcity and desperation.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 2 weeks ago
I am to talk about Apologetics....

I am to talk about Apologetics. Apologetics means of course Defence. The first question is - what do you propose to defend? Christianity, of course...

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"Christian Apologetics" (1945), p. 89
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 week 1 day ago
The closed language does not demonstrate...

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain-it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable.

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p. 101
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 2 weeks ago
The concept of space is not...

The concept of space is not abstracted from external sensations.

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