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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 1 week ago
He could almost wish he were...

He could almost wish he were superstitious. He could then console himself with the thought that the casual meaningless meeting had really been directed by a knowing and purposeful Fate.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 weeks 3 days ago
Sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence, and...

Sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence, and impulse without sensitiveness spells brutality.

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Ch. 13: "Requisites for Social Progress", p. 280
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
3 weeks 4 days ago
Myth is depoliticized speech. p. 145

Myth is depoliticized speech.

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p. 145
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
This inner revolution is realistic because...

This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.

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p. 66
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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
1 month ago
The precepts "Love your enemies, do...

The precepts "Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you" ... are born from the Gospel's profound spirit of individualism, which refuses to let one's own actions and conduct depend in any way on somebody else's acts. The Christian refuses to let his acts be mere reactions-such conduct would lower him to the level of his enemy. The act is to grow organically from the person, "as the fruit from the tree." ... What the Gospel demands is not a reaction which is the reverse of the natural reaction, as if it said: "Because he strikes you on the cheek, tend the other"-but a rejection of all reactive activity, of any participation in common and average ways of acting and standards of judgment.

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L. Coser, trans. (1961), pp. 99-100
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 1 week 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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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
That chastity of honour which felt...

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

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Volume iii, p. 332
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 days ago
The higher culture of the West-whose...

The higher culture of the West-whose moral, aesthetic, and intellectual values industrial society still professes-was a pre-technological culture in a functional as well as chronological sense. Its validity was derived from the experience of a world which no longer exists and which cannot be recaptured because it is in a strict sense invalidated by technological society. Moreover, it remained to a large degree a feudal culture, even when the bourgeois period gave it some of its most lasting formulations. It was feudal not only because of its confinement to privileged minorities, not only because of its inherent romantic element (which will be discussed presently), but also because its authentic works expressed a conscious, methodical alienation from the entire sphere of business and industry, and from its calculable and profitable order.

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p. 58
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 week 2 days ago
Art is a human activity consisting...

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
1 month ago
That Marxism should triumph in Russia,...

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

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Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 weeks 5 days ago
There were honest people long before...

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 1 week ago
By means of the new education...

By means of the new education we want to mould the Germans into a corporate body, which shall be stimulated and animated in all its individual members by the same interest.

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Introduction p. 15
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 1 week ago
It is the necessary, though very...

It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.

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Chapter II
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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 1 week ago
An individual who finds that he...

An individual who finds that he enjoys seeing others in positions of lesser liberty understands that he has no claim whatever to this enjoyment.

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Chapter I, Section 6, pg. 31
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 1 week ago
My doubt goes like this: How...

My doubt goes like this: How could the Loving One have the heart to let human beings become so guilty that they got his murder on their consciences?

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week 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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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
1 month 3 weeks ago
No evil is honorable; but death...

No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

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As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
Great ages of innovation are the...

Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped.

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(p. 309)
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Epicurus
Epicurus
2 months 4 weeks ago
The happiness which belongs to man,...

The happiness which belongs to man, is that state in which he enjoys as many of the good things, and suffers as few of the evils incident to human nature as possible; passing his days in a smooth course of permanent tranquility. A wise man, though deprived of sight or hearing, may experience happiness in the enjoyment of the good things which yet remain; and when suffering torture, or laboring under some painful disease, can mitigate the anguish by patience, and can enjoy, in his afflictions, the consciousness of his own constancy.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 3 weeks ago
Practice justice in word and deed,...

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

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As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 1 week ago
The teaching of my philosophy... that...

The teaching of my philosophy... that our whole existence is something which had better not have been, and that to disown and disclaim it is the highest wisdom.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 months ago
Perhaps there is one chain [of...

Perhaps there is one chain [of inference] leading from the mental and the physical to a common source. It is conceivable in the abstract that if mental phenomena derive from the properties of matter at all, these may be identical at some level with nonphysical properties from which physical phenomena also derive. ...If there were such properties, they would be discoverable only by explanatory inference from both mental and physical phenomena. ... There would be properties of matter that were not physical from which the mental properties of organic systems were derived. This could still be called panpsychism.

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"Panpsychism" (1979), pp. 184-185.
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Parmenides
Parmenides
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is one story left, one...

There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.

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Frag. B 8.1-4, quoted by Simplicius, Commentary on the Physics, 144
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 5 days ago
Love is a contradiction if there...

Love is a contradiction if there is no God.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
1 month 4 weeks ago
Ill repute is a good thing….

Ill repute is a good thing and much the same as pain.

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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 1 week ago
The reservedness and distance that fathers...

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

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Sec. 96
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
I resolved from the beginning of...

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

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Fact and Fiction (1961), Part I, Ch. 6: "The Pursuit of Truth", p. 37
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 week 5 days ago
There are cultures that can only...

There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
3 weeks 2 days ago
Today's fashion magazines may carry an...

Today's fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.

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As quoted in Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014), p.34
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Friedrich Schelling
Friedrich Schelling
1 month 1 week ago
Countless attempts have been made to...

Countless attempts have been made to no avail to construct a continuity from the supreme principle of the intellectual world to the finite world. The oldest and most frequent of these attempts is well known: the principle of emanation, according to which the outflowings from the godhead, in gradual increments and detachment from the ordinary source, losing their divine perfection until, in the end, they pass into the opposite (matter, privation), just as light is finally confined by darkness.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 1 week ago
Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It...

Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 5 days ago
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they...

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness).

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p. 55e
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
Language is a sense, like touch.

Language is a sense, like touch.

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(p. 271)
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 1 week ago
Both in England and on the...

Both in England and on the Continent a graduated property tax (l'impôt progressif) has been advocated, on the avowed ground that the state should use the instrument of taxation as a means of mitigating the inequalities of wealth. I am as desirous as any one that means should be taken to diminish those inequalities, but not so as to relieve the prodigal at the expense of the prudent.To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbours. It is not the fortunes which are earned, but those which are unearned, that it is for the public good to place under limitation.

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Book V, Chapter II
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John Searle
John Searle
1 week 5 days ago
The sense in which an automatic...

The sense in which an automatic door "understands instructions" from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 months ago
When the objective gaze is turned...

When the objective gaze is turned on human beings and other experiencing creatures, who are undeniably parts of the world, it can reveal only what they are like in themselves. And if the way things are for these subjects is not part of the way things are in themselves, an objective account, whatever it shows, will omit something. So reality is not just objective reality, and the pursuit of objectivity is not an equally effective method of reaching the truth about everything.

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"Subjective and Objective" (1979), pp. 212-213.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks 2 days ago
Do not allow...
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 6 days ago
Effort supposes resistance....

Effort supposes resistance.

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Vol. I, par. 320
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month ago
The characteristic activity of science is...

The characteristic activity of science is not construction, but induction. The more often something has occurred in the past, the more certain that it will in all the future. Knowledge relates solely to what is and to its recurrence. New forms of being, especially those arising from the historical activity of man, lie beyond empiricist theory. Thoughts which are not simply carried over from the prevailing pattern of consciousness, but arise from the aims and resolves of the individual, in short, all historical tendencies that reach beyond what is present and recurrent, do not belong to the domain of science.

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p. 144.
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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 4 days ago
I remind young people everywhere I...

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

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Speech in San Francisco: Democracy Matters
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 3 weeks ago
In this theater of man's life...

In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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Francis Bacon, in The Advancement of Learning (1605) Book II, xx, 8.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 2 days ago
And this Feare of things invisible,...

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

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The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 51
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 5 days ago
Enjoyment of the work consists in...

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

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p. 117
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
3 days ago
[Asked "Do you still favour English...

[Asked "Do you still favour English independence?"] No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing. Scottish independence, I don't think the Welsh want independence, the Northern Irish certainly don't. The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a,[sic] to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom. I can see there are Scottish nationalists who envision something more than that, but if that becomes a real political force then yeah, we should try for independence too. As it is, as you know, the Scots have two votes: they can vote for their own parliament and vote to put their people into our parliament, who come to our parliament with no interest in Scotland but an interest in bullying us.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The Chinese are a great nation,...

The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. That is why the West regards them as uncivilized.

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The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XIII: Higher education in China
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Porphyry
Porphyry
1 month 3 weeks ago
So people should abstain from other...

So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 5 days ago
What objection is there in reason...

What objection is there in reason to there being no other purpose in the sum of things save only to exist and happen as it does exist and happen? For him who places himself outside of himself, none; but for him who lives and suffers and desires within himself - for him it is a question of life or death.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Everything that makes diversity of kinds,...

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 weeks 3 days ago
Creativity is the universal of universals...

Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 4 days ago
The Democratic Party is beyond redemption...

The Democratic Party is beyond redemption at this point when it comes to seriously speaking to the needs of poor and working people... The neofascism that's escalating is predicated on the rottenness of a system in which the Democratic Party facilitates that frustration and desperation because it can't present an alternative... If America is unable to present an alternative to the Democratic Party, then we're going fascist.

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