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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Blessed are the hearts that can...

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
1 month 6 days ago
All those countless battles-those endless, and......

All those countless battles-those endless, and... for the greater part, useless wars, of which... fills up for so many thousand years... are but little atoms compared with the great whole of human destiny.

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William James
William James
2 months 5 days ago
Setting the mind to remember... involves...

Setting the mind to remember... involves a continual minimal irradiation of excitement into paths which lead thereto... the continued presence of the thing in the 'fringe' of our consciousness. Letting the thing go involves withdrawal of the irradiation, unconsciousness of the thing, and... obliteration of the paths.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 week 1 day ago
Particularly in the case of all...

Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which testify of the real events. In making reality, even the most violent, emerge to the visible, it makes the real substance disappear. It is like the Myth of Eurydice : when Orpheus turns around to look at her, she vanishes and returns to hell. That is why, the more exponential the marketing of images is growing the more fantastically grows the indifference towards the real world. Finally, the real world becomes a useless function, a collection of phantom shapes and ghost events. We are not far from the silhouettes on the walls of the cave of Plato.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 1 day ago
My conduct must be the best...

My conduct must be the best proof, the moral proof, of my supreme desire; and if I do not end by convincing myself, within the bounds of the ultimate and irremediable uncertainty of the truth of what I hope for, it is because my conduct is not sufficiently pure. Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith. There is no security or repose - so far as security and repose are obtainable in this life, so essentially insecure and unreposeful - save in conduct that is passionately good.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 1 day ago
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by...

Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.

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William James
William James
2 months 5 days ago
There can be no difference anywhere...

There can be no difference anywhere that doesn't make a difference elsewhere - no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in conduct consequent upon that fact, imposed on somebody, somehow, somewhere and somewhen.

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Lecture II, What Pragmatism Means
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John Searle
John Searle
1 week 1 day ago
An utterance can have Intentionality, just...

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 days ago
Speech is a mirror of the...

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

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Maxim 1073
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 2 weeks ago
Hope is a good breakfast, but...

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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No. 36
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 5 days ago
Marriage is a union between two...

Marriage is a union between two persons - one man and one woman. A woman who has given herself up to one, can not give herself up to a second, for her whole dignity requires that she should belong only to this one.

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p. 406
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 1 week ago
Divorce is probably….

Divorce is probably of nearly the same age as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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"Divorce", 1771
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 weeks 6 days ago
O World, Thou Choosest Not

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.

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O World, Thou Choosest Not
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
5 days ago
Saying that what we call our...

Saying that what we call our "selves" consist only of our bodies and that reason, soul, and love arise only from the body, is like saying that what we call our body is equivalent to the food that feeds the body. It is true that my body is only made up of digested food and that my body would not exist without food, but my body is not the same as food. Food is what the body needs for life, but it is not the body itself. The same thing is true of my soul. It is true that without my body there would not be that which I call my soul, but my soul is not my body. The soul may need the body, but the body is not the soul.

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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
1 month 3 weeks ago
On reaching Athens he fell in...

On reaching Athens he fell in with Antisthenes. Being repulsed by him, because he never welcomed pupils, by sheer persistence Diogenes wore him out. Once when he stretched out his staff against him, the pupil offered his head with the words, "Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say."

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 1 week ago
Our stubbornness is right, because we...

Our stubbornness is right, because we want to preserve the liberty which we have in Christ. Only by preserving our liberty shall we be able to retain the truth of the Gospel inviolate.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 5 days ago
We are always getting ready to...

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

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April 12, 1834
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 6 days ago
If you are penitent, you love....

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

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Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett) The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 4 days ago
The safest road to Hell is...

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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Letter XII
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William James
William James
2 months 5 days ago
We have ...as M. Ribot says,...

We have ...as M. Ribot says, not memory so much as memories. The visual... tactile... muscular... auditory memory may all vary independently... and different individuals may have them developed in different degrees. As a rule, a man's memory is good in the departments in which his interest is strong; but those departments are apt to be those in which his discriminative sensibility is high. ...[D]ifferences in men's imagining power... the machinery of memory must be largely determined thereby.

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Ch. 16
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 days ago
Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It...

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

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 4 days ago
Man is as much a slave...

Man is as much a slave to his immediate surroundings now as he was when he lived in tree-huts. Give him the highest, the most exciting thoughts about man's place in the universe, the meaning of history; they can all be snuffed out in a moment if he wants his dinner, or feels irritated by a child squalling on a bus. He is bound by pettiness.

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Chapter Two, World Without Values
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
2 days ago
To forget the wrongs you receive,...

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

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Maxim 383
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
3 weeks 1 day ago
There is only one thing that...

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 day ago
Fear is the antidote to boredom:...

Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.

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Horace
Horace
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is sweet and honorable…

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

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Book III, ode ii, line 13
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
4 weeks ago
An autonomous electorate, free because it...

An autonomous electorate, free because it is free from indoctrination and manipulation, would indeed be on a "level of articulate opinion and ideology" which is not likely to be found. Therefore, the concept has to be rejected as "unrealistic"-has to be if one accepts the factually prevailing level of opinion and ideology as prescribing the valid criteria for sociological analysis. And-if indoctrination and manipulation have reached the stage where the prevailing level of opinion has become a level of falsehood, where the actual state of affairs is no longer recognized as that which it is, then an analysis which is methodologically committed to reject transitive concepts commits itself to a false consciousness. Its very empiricism is ideological.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 6 days ago
That a woman is presented as...

That a woman is presented as a teacher, as a prototype of piety, cannot amaze anyone who knows that piety or godliness is fundamentally womanliness. ... from a woman you learn concern for the one thing needful, from Mary, sister of Lazarus, who sat silent at Christ's feet with her heart's choice: the one thing needful.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 5 days ago
We have repeatedly observed that while...

We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

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Pt. II, The Knowable; Ch. XV, The Law of Evolution (continued)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months ago
In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer...

In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest-the one who crosses the finish line last.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 days ago
Often, writers on historical events tend...

Often, writers on historical events tend to consider ... a loss of willingness to fight as a sign of "decadence," as though there were something despicable about not being a bully and not being willing to engage in mass murder. Perhaps we ought to feel instead that to cease to be warlike means to begin to be civilized and decent.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 4 days ago
"We may ignore, but we can...

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 6 days ago
It was the case of common...

It was the case of common soldiers deserting from their officers, to join a furious, licentious populace. It was a desertion to a cause, the real object of which was to level all those institutions, and to break all those connexions, natural and civil, that regulate and hold together the community by a chain of subordination; to raise soldiers against their officers; servants against their masters; tradesmen against their customers; artificers against their employers; tenants against their landlords; curates against their bishops; and children against their parents. That this cause of theirs was not an enemy to servitude, but to society.

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Speech in the House of Commons (9 February 1790), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXVIII (1816), column 359
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 5 days ago
The representation of the self-sufficiency of...

The representation of the self-sufficiency of the I can certainly co-exist with a representation of the self-sufficiency of the thing, though the self-sufficiency of the I itself cannot co-exist with that of the thing. Only one of these two can come first, only one can be the starting point; only one can be independent. The one that comes second, just because it comes second, necessarily becomes dependent upon the one that comes first, with which it is supposed to be connected. Which of these two should come first?

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 weeks 1 day ago
What I do not like about...

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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E 92
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 5 days ago
Though love repine, and reason chafe,...

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."

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Sacrifice
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William James
William James
2 months 5 days ago
Most of what happens actually is...

Most of what happens actually is forgotten.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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John Searle
John Searle
1 week 1 day ago
There is probably no more abused...

There is probably no more abused a term in the history of philosophy than "representation," and my use of this term differs both from its use in traditional philosophy and from its use in contemporary cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.... The sense of "representation" in question is meant to be entirely exhausted by the analogy with speech acts: the sense of "represent" in which a belief represents its conditions of satisfaction is the same sense in which a statement represents its conditions of satisfaction. To say that a belief is a representation is simply to say that it has a propositional content and a psychological mode.

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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
4 weeks ago
The present contains nothing more than...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 2 weeks ago
If a person gave your body...

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 month 3 days ago
Perfectibility is one of the most...

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

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Vol. 1, bk. 1 : Of the Powers of Man Considered in his Social Capacity, ch. 2
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
3 weeks 5 days ago
[I]t would be a piece of...

[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

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Chapter XV: We Arrive At The Real Question
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 1 week ago
By and large the literature of...

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 4 days ago
Jung believed that alchemy is about...

Jung believed that alchemy is about the transmutation of the mind and the discovery of the self. Inevitably, he saw the male and female elements of the prima materia -- the king and queen of alchemy -- as the animus and anima; this seemed to indicate the (sic) alchemy is about psychological processes.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
5 days ago
Unfortunately not only were the rulers,...

Unfortunately not only were the rulers, who were considered supernatural beings, benefited by having the peoples in subjection, but as a result of the belief in, and during the rule of, these pseudodivine beings, ever larger and larger circles of people grouped and established themselves around them, and under an appearance of governing took advantage of the people. And when the old deception of a supernatural and God-appointed authority had dwindled away these men were only concerned to devise a new one which like its predecessor should make it possible to hold the people in bondage to a limited number of rulers.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 6 days ago
The plan we are advocating amounts...

The plan we are advocating amounts essentially to this: that a certain small income, sufficient for necessaries, should be secured to all, whether they work or not, and that a larger income, as much larger as might be warranted by the total amount of commodities produced, should be given to those who are willing to engage in some work which the community recognizes as useful.

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Ch. IV: Work and Pay, discussing Universal Basic Income (UBI)
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
1 month 2 weeks ago
No one entrusts a secret to...

No one entrusts a secret to a drunken man; but one will entrust a secret to a good man; therefore, the good man will not get drunk.

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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 1 day ago
In an article published in The...

In an article published in The Monist for January, 1891, I endeavored to show what ideas ought to form the warp of a system of philosophy, and particularly emphasized that of absolute chance. In the number of April, 1892, I argued further in favor of that way of thinking, which it will be convenient to christen tychism (from τύχη, chance). A serious student of philosophy will be in no haste to accept or reject this doctrine; but he will see in it one of the chief attitudes which speculative thought may take, feeling that it is not for an individual, nor for an age, to pronounce upon a fundamental question of philosophy. That is a task for a whole era to work out. I have begun by showing that tychism must give birth to an evolutionary cosmology, in which all the regularities of nature and of mind are regarded as products of growth, and to a Schelling-fashioned idealism which holds matter to be mere specialized and partially deadened mind.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 5 days ago
England's genius filled all measure Of...

England's genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

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