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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 1 week ago
Inuring children gently to suffer some...

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 months 6 days ago
The word "God," so "capitalised" (as...

The word "God," so "capitalised" (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience. I, Ens necessarium is a latin expression which signifies "Necessary being, necessary entity"

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Henry George
Henry George
1 week 2 days ago
The progress of civilization necessitates the...

The progress of civilization necessitates the giving of greater and greater attention and intelligence to public affairs. And for this reason I am convinced that we make a great mistake in depriving one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention, the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women.

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Ch. 21 : Conclusion
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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
2 months 3 weeks ago
Greed is a bottomless pit which...

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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Ch. 4
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 1 week ago
Virtue is the death of conscience...

Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being.

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p. 402
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 months 3 days ago
The mind celebrates a little triumph...

The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth, however unwelcome to the flesh, or discover an actual force, however unfavourable to given interests.

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Ch. IV.: Music
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
The average man's opinions are much...

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself: in science, at least, his respect for authority is on the whole beneficial.

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On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 63
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
4 months 1 week ago
[W]e hold, that the moral obligation...

[W]e hold, that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue.

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Address and Declaration at a Select Meeting of the Friends of Universal Peace and Liberty (August 20, 1791) p. 3
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
2 months 3 days ago
For the first time in history,...

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 38
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 2 weeks ago
Nature has pointed out a mixed...

Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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Section 1 : Of The Different Species of Philosophy
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 months 5 days ago
The proletarian works with the instruments...

The proletarian works with the instruments of production of another, for the account of this other, in exchange for a part of the product. ... The proletarian liberates himself by abolishing competition, private property, and all class differences.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
3 months 1 day ago
De Lubac discusses an atheism which...

De Lubac discusses an atheism which means to suppress this searching, he says, "even including the problem as to what is responsible for the birth of God in human consciousness."

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p. 45
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
3 months 1 day ago
Whatever be the substance which takes...

Whatever be the substance which takes possession of such a soul, it will produce the same result, and will change into a pretext for not conforming to any concrete purpose. If it appears as reactionary or anti-liberal it will be in order to affirm that the salvation of the State gives a right to level down all other standards, and to manhandle one's neighbour, above all if one's neighbour is an outstanding personality. But the same happens if it decides to act the revolutionary; the apparent enthusiasm for the manual worker, for the afflicted and for social justice, serves as a mask to facilitate the refusal of all obligations, such as courtesy, truthfulness and, above all, respect or esteem for superior individuals. ... As regards other kinds of Dictatorship, we have seen only too well how they flatter the mass-man, by trampling on everything that appeared to be above the common level.

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Chapter XV: We Arrive At The Real Question
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 1 week ago
But supposing one tries to live...

But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?

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Pilgrim's Regress 132-133
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 1 week ago
All human activities are equivalent ......

All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure.

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Conclusion, II
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 1 week ago
The alphabet, when pushed to a...

The alphabet, when pushed to a high degree of abstract visual intensity, became typography. The printed word with its specialist intensity burst the bonds of medieval corporate guilds and monasteries, created extreme individualist patterns of enterprise and monopoly.

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(p. 23)
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 week 4 days ago
Eros? What other name may we...

Eros? What other name may we give that impetus which becomes enchanted as soon as it casts its glance on matter and then longs to impress its features upon it? It confronts the body and longs to pass beyond it, to merge with the other erotic cry hidden in that body, to become one till both may vanish and become deathless by begetting sons. It approaches the soul and wishes to merge with it inseparably so that "you" and "I" may no longer exist; it blows on the mass of man - kind and wishes, by smashing the resistances of mind and body, to merge all breaths into one violent gale that may lift the earth! In moments of crisis this Erotic Love swoops down on men and joins them together by force - friends and foes, good and evil. It is a breath superior to all of them, independent of their desires and deeds. It is the spirit, the breathing of God on earth. It descends on men in whatever form it wishes - as dance, as eros, as hunger, as religion, as slaughter. It does not ask our permission.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
4 months 1 week ago
The man who comes back through...

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

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Horace
Horace
4 months ago
In adversity, remember….

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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Book II, ode iii, line 1
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Confucius
Confucius
5 months ago
The way which the superior man...

The way which the superior man pursues, reaches wide and far, and yet is secret. Common men and women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice. Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
A nation never falls but by...

A nation never falls but by suicide.

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1861
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 1 week ago
Everybody tends to merge his identity...

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 3 weeks ago
More and more it is becoming...

More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.

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Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", p. 4
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 2 weeks ago
Mother love is stronger than the...

Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.

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Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
1 week 1 day ago
Either every imaginable institution is founded...

Either every imaginable institution is founded on a religious concept or it is only a passing phenomenon. Institutions are strong and durable to the degree that they are, so to speak, deified. Not only is human reason, or what is ignorantly called philosophy, incapable of supplying these foundations, which with equal ignorance are called superstitious, but philosophy is, on the contrary, an essentially disruptive force.

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Chapter V, p. 41
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 6 days ago
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
3 months 1 day ago
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but...

Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

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Signs, trans. R. McCleary (Evanston: 1964), p. 203
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 week ago
Remember that all is opinion…

Remember that all is opinion.

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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
2 months 2 weeks ago
Opinion is the companion of probability...

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

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Chapter 3, Opinion, p. 28.
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
4 months 1 week ago
The chief reason warfare is still...

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

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"On Violence"
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
3 weeks 4 days ago
Mucius might have accomplished something more...

Mucius might have accomplished something more successful in that camp, but never anything more brave.

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Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt
1 week 2 days ago
Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises,...

Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises, existed for Donoso Cortés only in that short interim period in which it was possible to answer the question "Christ or Barabbas?" with a proposal to adjourn or appoint a commission of investigation.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 months 6 days ago
The old land is still the...

The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.

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Pt. I, ch. IV
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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
6 days ago
Granting, as Lenin wants, such absolute...

Granting, as Lenin wants, such absolute powers of a negative character to the top organ of the party, we strengthen, to a dangerous extent, the conservatism inherent in such an organ.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 1 week ago
It was the period of my...

It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have attempted to do, or hope to effect hereafter, for human improvement. My first introduction to the lady who, after a friendship of twenty years, consented to become my wife, was in 1830, when I was in my twenty-fifth and she in her twenty-third year.

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(p. 184)
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
3 months 2 days ago
Being good is just a matter...

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

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The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127. Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.
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L.P. Jacks
L.P. Jacks
1 week ago
Are there not many Arts which,...

Are there not many Arts which, though speechless, express their meanings with perfect adequacy, with satisfaction to the recipient, and serve at the same time as a medium of communication between soul and soul?

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 week 3 days ago
I have always said, and always...

I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

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Attributed to Jefferson by Daniel Webster in a letter of 15 June 1852 addressed to Professor Pease, recalling a Sunday spent with Jefferson more than a quarter of a century before.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 1 week ago
I shall, without further discussion of...

I shall, without further discussion of the other theories, attempt to contribute something towards the understanding and appreciation of the Utilitarian or Happiness theory, and towards such proof as it is susceptible of. It is evident that this cannot be proof in the ordinary and popular meaning of the term. Questions of ultimate ends are not amenable to direct proof. Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof.

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Ch. 1
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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 3 days ago
Get thee hence, Satan: for it...

Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

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4:10 (KJV) Said to Satan.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 1 week ago
As a beast of toil an...

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

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Vol. II, Ch. VIII, p. 163.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
3 months 3 days ago
But yet they that have no...

But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

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The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21
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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 months 1 day ago
In ordinary visual perception, we see...

In ordinary visual perception, we see by means of light; we distinguish by means of reflected and refracted colors. But in ordinary perception, this medium of color is mixed, adulterated. While we see, we also hear; we feel pressures, and heat and cold. In a painting, color renders the scene without these alloys and impurities. They are part of the dross that is squeezed out and left behind in an act of intensified expression. The medium becomes color alone, and since color alone must now carry the qualities of movement, touch, sound, etc., that are present physically on their own account in ordinary vision, the expressiveness and energy of color are enhanced.

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p. 203
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 1 week ago
When He died in the Wounded...

When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!

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Will Durant
Will Durant
1 month ago
When the British came there was,...

When the British came there was, throughout India, a system of communal schools, managed by the village communities. The agents of the East India Company destroyed these village communities, and took steps to replace the schools; even today, after a century of effort to restore them, they stand at only 66% of their number a hundred years ago. Hence, the 93 % illiteracy of India.

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(source: The Case for India - By Will Durant Simon and Schuster, New York. 1930 p.44).
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 1 week ago
Association, applied to land, shares the...

Association, applied to land, shares the economic advantage of large-scale landed property, and first brings to realization the original tendency inherent in land-division, namely, equality. In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering, and through free labour and free enjoyment becomes once more a true personal property of man.

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Rent of Land, p. 65.
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
8 months 2 weeks ago
Objective thought is prayer

Tibetan prayer wheels: you write a prayer on a paper, put the rolled paper on a wheel, and turn it automatically, without thinking. In this way, the wheel itself is praying for me, instead of me - or more precisely, I myself am praying through the medium of the wheel. The beauty of it all is that in my psychological inferiority I can think about whatever I want, I can yield to the most dirty and obscene fantasies, and it does not matter because - to use a good old Stalinist expression - 'whatever I am thinking, objectively I am praying.'

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 months 2 weeks ago
The heart of man is the...

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

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Section 51
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 2 weeks ago
The rulers of Great Britain have,...

The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

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Chapter III, Part V, p. 1032 (Last Page).
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 5 days ago
I am sitting with a...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again "I know that that's a tree", pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: "This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."

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