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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 2 weeks ago
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of...

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. ... Whenever the Westerner hears the word "psychological," it always sounds to him like "only psychological."

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Psyche and Symbol (1958), p. 285
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
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The conscious mind allows itself to...

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

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par. 51 p.46
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
2 months 3 weeks ago
If the ability to tell...

If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant-in this respect almost alone among the philosophers-was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks 2 days ago
The civilized pagan recognizes life not...

The civilized pagan recognizes life not in himself alone, but in societies of men-in the tribe, the clan, the family, the kingdom -and sacrifices his personal good for these societies. The motive power of his life is glory. His religion consists in the exaltation of the glory of those who are allied to him-the founders of his family, his ancestors, his rulers-and in worshiping gods who are exclusively protectors of his clan, his family, his nation, his government.

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Chapter IV, Christianity Misunderstood by Men of Science
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Boethius
Boethius
3 months 1 week ago
Music is associated not only with...

Music is associated not only with speculation but with morality. When rhythms and modes reach an intellect through the ear, they doubtless affect and reshape that mind according to their particular character.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 weeks ago
Demonstrating is therefore only the means...

Demonstrating is therefore only the means through which I strip my thought of the form of "mine-ness" so that the other person may recognize it as his own.

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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 66
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
As long as one believes in...

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

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Horace
Horace
2 months 1 week ago
For joys fall….

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

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Book I, epistle xvii, line 9
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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
1 month 2 weeks ago
The notion that one can discover...

The notion that one can discover large patterns or regularities in the procession of historical events is naturally attractive to those who are impressed by the success of the natural sciences in classifying, correlating, and above all predicting.

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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
3 weeks 4 days ago
The ethical and political practice of...

The ethical and political practice of nonviolence can rely neither exclusively on the dyadic encounter, nor on the bolstering of a prohibition; it requires a political opposition to the biopolitical forms of racism and war logics that rely on phantasmagoric inversions that occlude the binding and interdependent character of the social bond. It requires, as well, an account of why, and under what conditions, the frameworks for understanding violence and nonviolence, or violence and self-defense, seem to invert into one another, causing confusion about how best to pin down those terms.

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p. 62
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
1 month 1 week ago
If one only wished to be...

If one only wished to be Sad, this could be horrible for the rest of civilisation; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

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As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks 2 days ago
The oppression of a majority by...

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks ago
The mother tongue is propaganda. The...

The mother tongue is propaganda.

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The University of Windsor review, Volumes 1-2, 1965, p. 10
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 weeks 5 days ago
There is certainly some chill and...

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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An Apology for Idlers.
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
2 months 1 week ago
The noblest people are those despising...

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 3 weeks ago
I have seen something of the...

I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all. Letter 11 to Grimarest: Passages Concerning the Abbe de St. Pierre's 'Project for Perpetual Peace' (June 1712).

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Taken from Leibniz: Political Writings (2nd Edition, 1988), Edited by Patrick Riley.
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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 2 weeks ago
Man is an imagining being. Ch....

Man is an imagining being.

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Ch. 2, sect. 10
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
3 weeks 5 days ago
To challenge and to cope with...

To challenge and to cope with this paradoxical state of things, we need a paradoxical way of thinking; since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events. It is not easy. We usually think that holding to the protocols of experimentation and verification is the most difficult thing. But in fact the most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.

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The Vital Illusion (2000) "The Murder of the Real". Wellek Library Lectures given May 1999 at the University of California, Irvine
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
The military mind remains unparalleled as...

The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Keep on, then, seeking first the...

Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you. So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles.

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Matthew 6:33-34, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
So nigh is grandeur to our...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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Voluntaries, st. 3
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
The foundation of all technology is...

The foundation of all technology is fire.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
She with one breath attunes the...

She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.

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"Inspiration", in An American Anthology, 1900
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 5 days ago
It is very well to say...

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other? Unless a woman had lost all pride, how is it possible for her, under the eyes of all her family, to indulge in long exclusive conversations with a man? "Such a thing" must not take place till after her "engagement." And how is she to make an engagement, if "such a thing" has not taken place?

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 3 weeks ago
It's so much easier to pray...

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the course of instruction which...

In the course of instruction which I have partially retraced, the point most superficially apparent is the great effort to give, during the years of childhood an amount of knowledge in what are considered the higher branches of education, which is seldom acquired (if acquired at all) until the age of manhood.

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(p. 30)
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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 month 2 weeks ago
The benefit of the governed is...

The benefit of the governed is made to lie on one side and the benefit of the governors on the other.

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Book III, Chapter 9
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is...

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity, a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 weeks 5 days ago
I regard you with an indifference...

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the House with the Green Blinds.
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 2 weeks ago
The abolition of private property has...

The abolition of private property has become not only possible but absolutely necessary. ... The outcome can only be the victory of the proletariat.

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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 2 weeks ago
Nature too remains, so far as...

Nature too remains, so far as we have yet come, ever a frightful Machine of Death: everywhere monstrous revolution, inexplicable vortices of movement; a kingdom of Devouring, of the maddest tyranny; a baleful Immense: the few light-points disclose but a so much the more appalling Night, and terrors of all sorts must palsy every observer.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 6 days ago
Several particular maxims... are as powerful,...

Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 3 weeks ago
He blamed as severely what he...

He blamed as severely what he thought a bad action, when the motive was a feeling of duty, as if the agents had been consciously evil doers. He would not have accepted as a plea in mitigation for inquisitors, that they sincerely believed burning heretics to be an obligation of conscience. But though he did not allow honesty of purpose to soften his disapprobation of actions, it had its full effect on his estimation of characters. No one prized conscientiousness and rectitude of intention more highly, or was more incapable of valuing any person in whom he did not feel assurance of it.

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(pp. 49-50)
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 2 weeks ago
The erotic instinct is something questionable,...

The erotic instinct is something questionable, and will always be so whatever a future set of laws may have to say on the matter. It belongs, on the one hand, to the original animal nature of man, which will exist as long as man has an animal body. On the other hand, it is connected with the highest forms of the spirit. But it blooms only when the spirit and instinct are in true harmony. If one or the other aspect is missing, then an injury occurs, or at least there is a one-sided lack of balance which easily slips into the pathological. Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 2 days ago
The love of God....
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
1 month 3 weeks ago
The stars are scattered all over...

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

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Act IV.
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 3 weeks ago
If the importation of foreign cattle,...

If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it. Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land.

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Chapter II
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is the duty of the...

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 2 days ago
The true line is not between...

The true line is not between "hard" natural science and "soft" social sciences, but between precise science limited to highly abstract and simple phenomena in the laboratory and inexact science and technology dealing with complex problems in the real world.

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p. 302.
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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 1 week ago
As we search as a nation...

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 1 week ago
The journey of a thousand miles...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 3 weeks ago
I believe Buddhism to be a...

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

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Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (14 December 1950), quoted in Sleuthing C. S. Lewis (2001) by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 2 weeks ago
Let us consider first the view...

Let us consider first the view that it is always wrong to take an innocent human life. We may call this the "sanctity of life" view. People who take this view oppose abortion and euthanasia. They do not usually, however, oppose the killing of nonhuman animals-so perhaps it would be more accurate to describe this view as the "sanctity of human life" view. The belief that human life, and only human life, is sacrosanct is a form of speciesism.

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Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 weeks ago
After silence that which comes nearest...

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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"The Rest is Silence"
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 day 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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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the name of national security,...

In the name of national security, the Commission's hearings were held in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of the case. This prompts my second question: If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security? Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed in France during the Dreyfus case: If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy? "

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16 Questions on the Assassination" in The Minority of One, ed. M.S. Arnoni (1964-09-06), pp. 6-8
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John Gray
John Gray
Just now
If our universe is one of...

If our universe is one of many, unlike others in containing observers like ourselves, there is no need to posit a designer. Most universes will be too chaotic to allow the emergence of life or mind. In that case, the fact that humans exist in this universe needs no special explanation.

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Sweet Morality (p. 222)
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 2 weeks ago
Whereas logic and objectivity are usually...

Whereas logic and objectivity are usually the predominant features of a man's outer attitude, or are at least regarded as ideals, in the case of a woman it is feeling. But in the soul it is the other way round: inwardly it is the man who feels, and the woman who reflects. Hence a man's greater liability to total despair, while a woman can always find comfort and hope; accordingly a man is more likely to put an end to himself than a woman. However much a victim of social circumstances a woman may be, as a prostitute for instance, a man is no less a victim of impulses from the unconscious, taking the form of alcoholism and other vices.

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Psychological Types (1921). CW 6. P.805
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 6 days ago
Could it be that sexual perversion...

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

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p. 17
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is strange that men will...

It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 163
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