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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Nothing is harder to understand than...

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
The Law of conservation of energy...

The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
I believe that every human being...

I believe that every human being with a physically normal brain can learn a great deal and can be surprisingly intellectual. I believe that what we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.We can all be members of the intellectual elite and then, and only then, will a phrase like "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning.

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Averroes
Averroes
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 03:18
It is quite clear to you...

It is quite clear to you that all the people see that lower kinds of creation could have been made in a different way from that in which they really are, and as they see this lower degree in many things they think that they must have been made by chance.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
In the Church which was founded...

In the Church which was founded at Corinth, St. Paul had special difficulties of the kind I have mentioned. In that flourishing commercial city, which through its shipping and situation, maintained a vital connexion between East and West, numerous crowds of people flocked together from all quarters, different in speech and in culture. As they mingled with the inhabitants, they produced, by contacts and contrasts, new and ever new differences. Even in the Church this differentiation endeavoured to make itself felt in sects and parties; and a kind of pagan wisdom made a special attempt to force itself forward as a teacher of truth. In his first letter to this church, from which the text I read is taken, St. Paul strongly combats this tendency.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;...

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. 20:18-19 (KJV)

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
To one unnamed, whose name will...

To one unnamed, whose name will one day be named, is dedicated, with this little work, the entire authorship, as it was from the beginning.

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 02:07
A fantasy construction

Ideology is not a dreamlike illusion that we build to escape insupportable; in its basic dimension, it is a fantasy-construction which serves as a support for our reality itself; an illusion which structures our effective, real social relations and thereby masks some insupportable, real, impossible kernel.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
He that dippeth his hand with...

He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 26:23-24 (KJV)

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
He was extremely important to his...

He was extremely important to his contemporaries, who wanted nothing more than to see in him the Expected One; they wanted almost to press it upon him and and to force him into the role - but that he then refuses to be that!

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
Old age realizes the dreams of...

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
All human laws are nourished by...

All human laws are nourished by one divine law.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:48
My Universalists! Where are you.......
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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Verily, verily, I say unto you,...

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 6:53-56

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
But everyone who hears these sayings...

But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. Matthew 7:24-27 (NKJV) (Also Luke 6:47-49)

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world...

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
You will exceed all of them....

You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me. Jesus to Judas, Judas

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
There always comes a time in...

There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
It is only he who is...

It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can give its full development to his nature. Able to give its full development to his own nature, he can do the same to the nature of other men. Able to give its full development to the nature of other men, he can give their full development to the natures of animals and things. Able to give their full development to the natures of creatures and things, he can assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth. Able to assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
I will make an attempt to...
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou...

Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 16:23 (KJV)

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
Human justice is very prolix, and...

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Every rebellion implies some kind of...

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
There is nothing so eternally adhesive...

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
Speaking with sense we must fortify...

Speaking with sense we must fortify ourselves in the common sense of all, as a city is fortified by its law, and even more forcefully. For all human laws are nourished by the one divine law. For it prevails as far as it will and suffices for all and is superabundant.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
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. 26:10-13 (KJV)

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Earth is a ball that is...

Earth is a ball that is over 12,000 kilometres in diameter, and if it were modelled into an object the size of a billiard ball, with all its surface unevenness reproduced exactly to scale, the model would be smoother than an ordinary billiard ball and the ocean would be an all but unnoticeable mist of dampness over 70 percent of its surface.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
The world is rejuvenated, but as...

The world is rejuvenated, but as Heine so wittily remarked, it was rejuvenated by romanticism to such a degree that it became a baby again.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Science is a systematic method for...

Science is a systematic method for studying and working out those generalizations that seem to describe the behavior of the universe. It could exist as a purely intellectual game that would never affect the practical life of human beings either for good or evil, and that was very nearly the case in ancient Greece, for instance. Technology is the application of scientific findings to the tools of everyday life, and that application can be wise or unwise, useful or harmful. Very often, those who govern technological decisions are not scientists and know little about science.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
How many loaves have ye? 15:34

How many loaves have ye? 15:34 (KJV)

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Heaven and earth shall pass away,...

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Mark 13:31, KJV

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
He that is not with me...

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Matthew 12:30 (KJV)

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
Every tradition grows ever more venerable
Every tradition grows ever more venerable — the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
When we see men of...

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Thou shalt love the Lord thy...

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 22:37-40 (KJV)

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
All men by nature desire to...

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
It is better...

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
When there were gathered together an...

When there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. 12:1-5

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Judge not, that ye be not...

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (Matthew 7:1-2) (KJV)

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
Reviewing what you have learned...

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
The man who does not wish...
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The way of Heaven and Earth...

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 20:45
Reason in man is rather like...

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
If you fast, you will give...

If you fast, you will give rise to sin for yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and walk about in the districts, if they receive you, eat what they will set before you, and heal the sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth—it is that which will defile you. (14)

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating,...

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
What will ye that I shall...

What will ye that I shall do unto you? 20:32 (KJV) Asked of two blind men.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
In cases of this sort, let...

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Individual science fiction stories may seem...

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 20:45
The order of authority derives from...

The order of authority derives from God, as the Apostle says [in Romans 13:1-7]. For this reason, the duty of obedience is, for the Christian, a consequence of this derivation of authority from God, and ceases when that ceases. But, as we have already said, authority may fail to derive from God for two reasons: either because of the way in which authority has been obtained, or in consequence of the use which is made of it. There are two ways in which the first may occur. Either because of a defect in the person, if he is unworthy; or because of some defect in the way itself by which power was acquired, if, for example, through violence, or simony or some other illegal method.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
巧言令色、鮮矣仁。 Fine words and an insinuating...

巧言令色、鮮矣仁。 Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. Variant: Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.

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