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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 month 3 weeks ago
The time would fail me if...

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.

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Crabbed Age and Youth.
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
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Things that were hard….

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months 1 week ago
There is no such thing as...

There is no such thing as data-driven thinking.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 1 week ago
A clash of doctrines is not...

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster - it is an opportunity.

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Ch. 12: "Religion and Science", p. 259
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Mozi
Mozi
4 days ago
If we should classify one by...

If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality against one another is the cause of the major calamities in the empire, then partiality is wrong.

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Book 4; Universal Love III
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 1 week ago
When at the beginning of the...

When at the beginning of the so-called modern age, at the Renaissance, the pagan sense of religion came to life again, it took the concrete form in the knightly ideal with its codes of conduct of love and honor. But it was a paganism Christianized, baptized. "Woman - la donna - was the divinity enshrined within those savage breasts. Whosoever will investigate the memorials of primitive times will find this ideal of woman in its full force and purity; the Universe is woman.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 weeks ago
The product of mental labor -...

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

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Addenda, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value" in Economic Manuscripts, 1861-63
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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 3 weeks ago
There is but one Temple in...

There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body. Variant translation: There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man.

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As inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in Handbook of the New Library of Congress (1897) by Herbert Small, p. 53
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
I believe that one of the...

I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

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p. 53e
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 4 weeks ago
Thus, because Christian morals leave animals...

Thus, because Christian morals leave animals out of consideration ... therefore in philosophical morals they are of course at once outlawed; they are merely "things," simply means to ends of any sort; and so they are good for vivisection, for deer-stalking, bull-fights, horse-races, etc., and they may be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy quarry carts. Shame on such a morality ... which fails to recognize the Eternal Reality immanent in everything that has life, and shining forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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Part II, Ch. VI, pp. 94-95
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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
3 weeks 1 day ago
Beginning in the 1970s, however, the...

Beginning in the 1970s, however, the techniques and organizational form of industrial production shifted toward smaller and more mobile labor units and more flexible structures of production, a shift often labeled as a move from Fordist to post-Fordist production.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 3 weeks ago
In television, images are projected at...

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

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The diplomat, Issues 197-208, 1966, p. 20
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 3 weeks ago
A friend is one soul abiding...

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. p. 188; also reported in various sources as:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
3 weeks ago
In situations of de facto diversity,...

In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
To suffer is the great modality...

To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
2 months 5 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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William James
William James
3 months 3 weeks ago
The individual, so far as he...

The individual, so far as he suffers from his wrongness and criticizes it, is to that extent consciously beyond it, and in at least possible touch with something higher, if anything higher exist. Along with the wrong part there is thus a better part of him, even though it may be but a most helpless germ. With which part he should identify his real being is by no means obvious at this stage; but when stage 2 (the stage of solution or salvation) arrives, the man identifies his real being with the germinal higher part of himself; and does so in the following way. He becomes conscious that this higher part is coterminous and continuous with a more of the same quality, which is operative in the universe outside of him, and which he can keep in working touch with, and in a fashion get on board of and save himself when all his lower being has gone to pieces in the wreck.

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Lecture XX, "Conclusions"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
I dream of a language whose...

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 month 1 week ago
There is no alleviation for the...

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe, by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features, is stripped off.

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Autobiography
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 2 weeks ago
Ye have heard that it hath...

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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Matthew 5:43-45 (KJV)
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 4 days ago
You must not murder. (Exodus 20:13)...

You must not murder. (Exodus 20:13) Q. What does this mean? A. We should fear and love God so that we may not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and befriend him in every bodily need [in every need and danger of life and body].

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 3 weeks ago
Athuroglossos is characterized by..: (1) When...

Athuroglossos is characterized by..: (1) When you have "a mouth like a running spring," you cannot distinguish those occasions when you should speak from those when you should remain silent; or that which must be said from that which must remain unsaid; or the circumstances and situations where speech is required from those where one ought to remain silent. (2) As Plutarch notes... you have no regard for the value of logos, for rational discourse as a means of gaining access to truth.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 3 weeks ago
I don't really know what they...

I don't really know what they mean by "intellectuals," all the people who describe, denounce, or scold them. I do know, on the other hand, what I have committed myself to, as an intellectual, which is to say, after all, a cerebro-spinal individual: to having a brain as supple as possible and a spinal column that's as straight as necessary.

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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
2 months 2 weeks ago
I have never said that human...

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.

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Chap.II: The Rise Of The Historic Level
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 2 weeks ago
The utmost possible regarding an individual...

The utmost possible regarding an individual is a statement as to some order of probability about the future. Heisenberg's principle has been seized upon as a basis for wild statements to the effect that the doctrine of arbitrary free will and totally uncaused activity are now scientifically substantiated. Its actual force and significance is generalization of the idea that the individual is a temporal career whose future cannot logically be deduced from its past.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As...

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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The Problem, st. 3
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Gottlob frege
Gottlob frege
2 months 2 weeks ago
A judgment, for me is not...

A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth.

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Gottlob Frege (1892). On Sense and Reference, note 7.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 3 weeks ago
There is room in the world,...

There is room in the world, no doubt, and even in old countries, for a great increase of population, supposing the arts of life to go on improving, and capital to increase. But even if innocuous, I confess I see very little reason for desiring it. The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of co-operation and of social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries, been attained. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it..

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Book IV, Chapter VI, §3, p. 516
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months 1 week ago
Ritual society is a society of...

Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Money often costs too much. Wealth

Money often costs too much.

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Wealth
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Plato
Plato
4 months 3 weeks ago
Your pride has been too much...

Your pride has been too much for the pride of your admirers; they were numerous and high-spirited, but they have all run away, overpowered by your superior force of character; not one of them remains. And I want you to understand the reason why you have been too much for them. You think that you have no need of them or of any other man, for you have great possessions and lack nothing, beginning with the body, and ending with the soul. Socrates speaking to Alcibiades

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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
2 months 3 weeks ago
There is no problem in all...

There is no problem in all mathematics that cannot be solved by direct counting. But with the present implements of mathematics many operations can be performed in a few minutes which without mathematical methods would take a lifetime.

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p. 197; On mathematics and counting.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 6 days ago
Man is a masterpiece of creation...

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

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J 249
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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 2 weeks ago
When your father is alive,...

When your father is alive, observe his will. When your father is dead observe his former actions. If, for three years after the death of your father you do not change from the ways of your father, you can be called a 'real son'.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 3 weeks ago
A general State education is a...

A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

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Ch. V: Applications
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 3 weeks ago
When the evolutionary process shifts from...

When the evolutionary process shifts from biology to software technology the body becomes the old hardware environment. The human body is now a probe, a laboratory for experiments.

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(p. 180)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 months 5 days ago
Music s a hidden...
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
Is it conceivable to adhere to...

Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 3 weeks ago
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem...

Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

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August 5, 1838
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 3 weeks ago
The strangest mores of the most...

The strangest mores of the most of-the-way societies will, in spite of everything, be relatively comprehensible to the person who has a flesh-and-blood knowledge of man's needs, anxieties, and hopes. If, on the other hand, this experience is lacking, he will not even be able to understand the customs of those about him.

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p. 139
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Xunzi
Xunzi
3 weeks 2 days ago
The gentleman knows that whatever is...

The gentleman knows that whatever is imperfect and unrefined does not deserve praise. ... He makes his eyes not want to see what is not right, makes his ears not want to hear what is not right, makes his mouth not want to speak what is not right, and makes his heart not want to deliberate over what is not right. ... For this reason, power and profit cannot sway him, the masses cannot shift him, and nothing in the world can shake him.

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Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 260
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 week 4 days ago
Everything of this sort is not...

Everything of this sort is not anger, but the semblance of anger, like that of boys who want to beat the ground when they have fallen upon it, and who often do not even know why they are angry, but are merely angry without any reason or having received any injury, yet not without some semblance of injury received, or without some wish to exact a penalty for it.

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B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner
3 weeks 1 day ago
The real question is not whether...

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

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Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 months 3 weeks ago
On condition that you protect my...

On condition that you protect my rights, I will protect your rights. How, then, does some party obtain the right to claim the protection of the other? Evidently, by actually protecting the rights of the other. But if this is so, no party will ever obtain a strictly legal claim to the protection of the other.

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P. 220
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 3 weeks ago
Our responsibility is much greater than...

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

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Existentialism and Human Emotions
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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
1 week ago
To have faith is to trust...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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The Essence of Alan Watts
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Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
1 week ago
Plato ... says a multitude can...

Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

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Commerce and Culture, p. 286.
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 months 2 days 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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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
3 months 1 week ago
Evil destroyeth itself.

Evil destroyeth itself.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 4 days ago
Reason is the greatest enemy that...

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not--struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

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