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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 weeks ago
The quality of feeling is the...

The quality of feeling is the true psychical representative of the first category of the immediate as it is in its immediacy, of the present in its direct positive presentness. Qualities of feeling show myriad-fold variety, far beyond what the psychologists admit. This variety however is in them only insofar as they are compared and gathered into collections. But as they are in their presentness, each is sole and unique; and all the others are absolute nothingness to it - or rather much less than nothingness, for not even a recognition as absent things or as fictions is accorded to them. The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 1 : Presentness, CP 5.44
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Novalis
Novalis
3 weeks 2 days ago
Every stage of education begins with...

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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"Miscellaneous Observations," Philosophical Writings, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #48
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
3 weeks 4 days ago
The supporters of the Development Hypothesis......

The supporters of the Development Hypothesis... can show that any existing species-animal or vegetable-when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue; until, ultimately, the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 4 weeks ago
The objective of all human arrangements...
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
1 week 4 days ago
Myth deprives the object of which...

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

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p. 151
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
2 weeks 3 days ago
All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable...

All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

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Ch. 9, p. 127
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks ago
Why don't I commit suicide? Because...

Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 weeks 5 days ago
All persons possessing any portion of...

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they...

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

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Act 5, sc. 3
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 week 5 days ago
If a philosopher is not a...

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. The cultivation of any branch of science - of chemistry, of physics, of geometry, of philology - may be a work of differentiated specialization, and even so, only within very narrow limits and restrictions; but philosophy, like poetry, is a work of integration and synthesis, or else it is merely pseudo-philosophical erudition.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
2 months 2 weeks ago
Chance seldom interferes with the wise...

Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
5 days ago
We can see nothing whatever of...

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
5 days ago
Rational free spirits are the light...

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 4 weeks ago
This is the mistake which I...
This is the mistake which I seem to make eternally, that I imagine the sufferings of others as far greater than they really are. Ever since my childhood, the proposition, my greatest dangers lie in pity, has been confirmed again and again.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 week 4 days ago
No human being escapes the necessity...

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. consequently, the only choice is between worshipping the true God or an idol. Every atheist is an idolater - unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

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Last Notebook (1942) p. 308
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 3 weeks ago
The game of science is, in...

The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

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Ch. 2 "On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method", Section 11: Methodological Rules as Conventions, p. 32.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 3 days ago
Man is certainly crazy...

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
Existence precedes and rules…

Existence precedes and rules essence.

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Part 4, chapter 1
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 4 weeks ago
If each us had a different...
If each us had a different kind of sense perception — if we could only perceive things now as a bird, now as a worm, now as a plant, or if one of us saw a stimulus as red, another as blue, while a third even heard the same stimulus as a sound, then no one would speak of such a regularity of nature, rather, nature would be grasped only as a creation which is subjective in the highest degree. After all, what is a law of nature as such for us? We are not acquainted with it in itself, but only with its effects, which means in its relation to other laws of nature which, in turn, are known to us only as sums of relations. Therefore all these relations always refer again to others and are thoroughly incomprehensible to us in their essence.
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
4 days ago
If by motivation we mean whatever...

If by motivation we mean whatever it is that causes someone to follow a particular course of action, then every action is motivated - by definition. But in most human behavior the relation between motives and action is not simple; it is mediated by a whole chain of events and surrounding conditions. We observe a man scratching his arm. His motive (or goal)? To relieve an itch.

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p. 265.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 4 days ago
Think to yourself...
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 weeks 1 day ago
There is rarely a creative man...

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 week 3 days ago
Nature is a structure of evolving...

Nature is a structure of evolving processes. The reality is the process.

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Ch. 4: "The Eighteenth Century", p. 102
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 3 days ago
All seed except Mary was vitiated...

All seed except Mary was vitiated [by original sin].

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Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 11, WA, 39, II:107
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month ago
People praise virtue, but they hate...

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 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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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 1 week ago
He who created you without you...

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 1 week ago
Agesilaus was very fond of his...

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

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Of Agesilaus the Great
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks ago
What anxiety when one is not...

What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 1 week ago
Be not hasty to speak; nor...

Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear!

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
As far as men go, it...

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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Act 5, sc. 3
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks ago
There is nothing to say about...

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 weeks ago
By extensively studying all learning, and...

By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 3 weeks ago
Lincoln is not the product of...

Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This plebeian, who worked his way up from stone-breaker to Senator in Illinois, without intellectual brilliance, without a particularly outstanding character, without exceptional importance-an average person of good will, was placed at the top by the interplay of the forces of universal suffrage unaware of the great issues at stake. The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world!

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 3 weeks ago
The life of money-making is one...

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 weeks 4 days ago
You shall know the truth, and...

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
1 week 4 days ago
It is difficult to fit the...

It is difficult to fit the work of Nikolai Berdyaev into any neat category. The label that was used most frequently to characterize him was that of an "existential Christian philosopher" but ... his voice is equally relevant to psychology and psychoanalysis and it also constitutes a uniquely original commentary on the very nature of the person in our postmodern world especially in relation to spirituality.

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Renos K. Papadopoulos, in C.G. Jung and Nikolai Berdyaev: Individuation and the Person (2011) by Georg Nicolaus, Foreword, p. xiii
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 1 week ago
Patience cometh by the grace of...

Patience cometh by the grace of the Soul.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 1 week ago
After the battle in Pharsalia, when...

After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."

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Cicero
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is entirely clear that there...

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

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"The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War" in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10/1/1945
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 4 days ago
The human understanding is unquiet; it...

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

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Aphorism 48
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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 3 weeks ago
Beating is the worst, and therefore...

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

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Sec. 84
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 1 week ago
Therefore let every Christian, yea, let...

Therefore let every Christian, yea, let the whole body of Christ everywhere cry out, despite the tribulations it endures, despite temptations and countless scandals, saying: "Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save Thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee" (Ps. 85:2) No, this holy one is not proud, for he trusts in God.

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p.429
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is an artist imprisoned in...

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

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Last Essay: "1967"
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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 4 weeks ago
If nature has been frugal in...

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

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Part I, Essay 16: The Stoic
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
5 days ago
Nothing can contribute more to peace...

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 weeks ago
I hear and I forget. I...

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 3 weeks ago
The sublime is excited in me...

The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 week 4 days ago
Attention consists of suspending our thought,...

Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated by the object; it means holding in our minds, within reach of this thought, but on a lower level and not in contact with it, the diverse knowledge we have acquired which we are forced to make use of.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
3 days ago
Now, moral philosophers generally prefer to...

Now, moral philosophers generally prefer to talk about virtues, or about (specific) duties, rights, and so on, rather than about moral images of the world. There are obvious reasons for this; nevertheless, I think that it is a mistake, and that Kant is profoundly right. What we require in moral philosophy is, first and foremost, a moral image of the world, or rather--since, here again, I am more of a pluralist than Kant--a number of complementary moral images of the world.

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Lecture III: Equality and Our Moral Image of the World
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