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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 1 week ago
To none is life…

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

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Book III, line 971 (tr. R. E. Latham)
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 3 weeks ago
Everyone is the other, and no...

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
I trust a good deal to...

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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February 1855
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 5 days ago
A strong memory is commonly coupled...

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

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Ch. 9. Of Liars, tr. Cotton, rev. W. Carew Hazlitt, 1877
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
The deepest and most organic death...

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 weeks ago
To travel is to discover that...

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong.

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Part II: Malaya,
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 day ago
Marriage is encouraged in China, not...

Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.

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Chapter VIII, p. 87.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 3 weeks ago
For anyone who at the end...

For anyone who at the end of Western philosophy can and must still question philosophically, the decisive question is no longer merely "What basic character do beings manifest?" or "How may the being of beings be characterized?" but "What is this 'being' itself?" The decisive question is that of "the meaning of being," not merely that of the being of beings.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
1 month 5 days ago
In conclusion, then, no satisfactory interpretation...

In conclusion, then, no satisfactory interpretation of quantum mechanics exists today. The questions posed by the confrontation between the Copenhagen interpretation and the hidden variable theorists go to the very foundations of microphysics, but the answers given by hidden variable theorists and Copenhagenists are alike unsatisfactory. Human curiosity will not rest until those questions are answered, but whether they will be answered by conceptual innovations within the framework of the present theory or only within the framework of an as yet unforeseen theory is unknown. The first step toward answering them has been attempted here. It is the modest but essential step of becoming clear on the nature and magnitude of the difficulties.

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A philosopher looks at quantum mechanics
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
3 months 2 weeks ago
War is the father and king...

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 weeks 4 days ago
When two do the same thing,...

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

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Maxim 338
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 3 weeks ago
'But you must see that if...

But you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.''What would the third be?''Some have thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the Landlord.'

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Pilgrim's Regress 59
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Chrysippus
Chrysippus
2 months 2 weeks ago
We should infer in the case...

We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.

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As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, iii. 10.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 4 weeks ago
We assert then that nothing has...

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and - if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it - we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 4 days ago
Human perception is literally incarnation. "Catholic...

Human perception is literally incarnation.

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"Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters", in Christian Humanism in Letters, The McAuley Lectures (1954), p. 49-67
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months 3 days ago
Ideology is a symptom

This is probably the fundamental dimension of 'ideology': ideology is not simply a 'false consciousness', an illusory representation of reality, it is rather this reality itself which is already to be conceived as 'ideological' - 'ideological' is a social reality whose very existence implies the non-knowledge of its participants as to its essence -that is, the social effectivity, the very reproduction of which implies that the individuals 'do not know what they are doing'. 'Ideological is not the false consciousness of a (social) being but this being itself in so far as it is supported by "false consciousness"'. Thus we have finally reached the dimension of the symptom, because one of its possible definitions would also be 'a formation whose very consistency implies a certain non-knowledge on the part of the subject': the subject can 'enjoy his symptom' only in so far as its logic escapes him - the measure of the success of its interpretation is precisely its dissolution.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 day ago
The government of an exclusive company...

The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

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Chapter VII, Part Second, p. 619.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 1 week ago
Assist a man in raising a...

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 weeks ago
Neither a man nor a crowd...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 day ago
A wise man's kingdom is his...

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

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Playfully ironic letter to Adam Smith regarding the positive reception of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
Life is an offensive, directed against...

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

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p. 102.
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month 2 weeks ago
Reason has never really directed social...

Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 1 week ago
There are hardly any truths upon...

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 3 weeks ago
It would be an endless task...

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
The march, as ever, is toward...

The march, as ever, is toward the future, and he who marches is getting there, even though he march walking backwards. And who knows if that is not the better way!...

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 5 days ago
Covetousness is both the beginning and...

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
1 week 3 days ago
No collection of facts is ever...

No collection of facts is ever complete, because the Universe is without bounds. And no synthesis or interpretation is ever final, because there are always fresh facts to be found after the first collection has been provisionally arranged.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Our life is a hope which...

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Give us leave to live! The eternity that is like an eternal present, without memory and without hope, is death. Thus do ideas exist in the God-Idea, but not thus do men live in the living God, in the God-Man.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Much learning...

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 1 week ago
The most heated defenders of a...

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
2 weeks 6 days ago
Reading Decline of the West I...

Reading Decline of the West I learned that in Spengler's view ours was a Faustian civilization and that we, the Jews, were Magians, the survivors and representatives of an earlier type, totally incapable of comprehending the Faustian spirit that had created the great civilization of the West. ... What Magians were to Faustians, Faustians might very well be to Americans.

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Part I, p. 26
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months ago
The second is the partiality for...

The second is the partiality for unity proper to the philosophical mind, whence this wide-spread canon has flown forth: principles are not to be multiplied beyond supreme necessity, to which we give in our adhesion, not because we have insight into causal unity in the world either by reason or experience, but as seeking it by an impulse of the intellect which seems to itself to have by thus much advanced in the explication of phenomena, by as much as it is granted to it to descend from the same principle to a greater number of consequences,

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Ye fools, did not he that...

Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

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11:40 (KJV)
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Boethius
Boethius
3 months 2 weeks 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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Averroes
Averroes
3 months 2 weeks ago
The necessary connexion of movement and...

The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul constructs in movement.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 weeks ago
I don't like the spirit of...

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

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Letter to Constance Malleson (Colette), September 29, 1916
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month ago
Almost anything...
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
3 weeks 2 days ago
In one way or another, all...

In one way or another, all my books have been devoted to expounding and exploring the almost limitless power of the Darwinian principle-power unleashed whenever and wherever there is enough time for the consequences of primordial self-replication to unfold. Preface

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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 2 weeks ago
Cato the elder wondered how that...

Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.

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Cato the Elder
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
The absurd ... is an experience...

The absurd ... is an experience to be lived through, a point of departure, the equivalent, in existence of Descartes' methodical doubt. Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. The first and only evidence that is supplied me, within the terms of the absurdist experience, is rebellion ... Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
If the Jew did not exist,...

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 day ago
'Tis evident, that sympathy, or the...

Tis evident, that sympathy, or the communication of passions, takes place among animals, no less than among men. Fear, anger, courage and other affections are frequently communicated from one animal to another [...] And 'tis remarkable, that tho' almost all animals use in play the same member, and nearly the same action as in fighting; a lion, a tyger, a cat their paws; an ox his homs; a dog his teeth; a horse his heels: Yet they most carefully avoid harming their companion, even tho' they have nothing to fear from his resentment; which is an evident proof of the sense brutes have of each other's pain and pleasure.

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Part 2, Section 12
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 5 days ago
I'd rather be ruled by a...

I'd rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian.

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The earliest published source for such a statement yet located is in Pat Robertson - Where He Stands (1988) by Hubert Morken, p. 42, where such a comment is attributed to Luther without citation.
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
Generally speaking there is no irreducible...

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 4 weeks ago
There is no sin, and there...

There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

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Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett) The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 4 weeks ago
In the Hindoo scripture the idea...

In the Hindoo scripture the idea of man is quite illimitable and sublime. There is nowhere a loftier conception of his destiny. He is at length lost in Brahma himself 'the divine male.' ... there is no grandeur conception of creation anywhere .... The very indistinctness of its theogeny implies a sublime truth.

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A Tribute to Hinduism, 2008
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any...

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 6 days ago
For a man to love again...

For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.

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Of The Exaltation of Charity
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
The real nature of the present...

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
They who bow to the enemy...

They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home.

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