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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 2 weeks ago
What is the case, the fact,...

What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.

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(2) Original German: Was der Fall ist, die Tatsache, ist das Bestehen von Sachverhalten.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
My desire for knowledge is intermittent...

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before - a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
The unconsciousness of man is the...

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The lord of that servant will...

The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

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Luke 12:46 (KJV)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
The saddest aspect of life right...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 weeks ago
Never wholly separate in your Mind...

Never wholly separate in your Mind the merits of any Political Question from the Men who are concerned in it.

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Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November 1789), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 47
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
Every Christian is to become a...

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

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Book IV, Chapter 4, "Good Infection"
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
4 weeks ago
There is no belief....
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
1 month 2 weeks ago
Political Freedom without economic equality is...

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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The Red Association
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 6 days ago
Without doubt, if we are to...

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

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Pt. II, ch. 10, sec. 1.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 5 days ago
The task of power is to...

The task of power is to transform the always possible 'no' into a 'yes.'

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 3 weeks ago
The supporters of the Development Hypothesis......

The supporters of the Development Hypothesis... can show that any existing species-animal or vegetable-when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue; until, ultimately, the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can show that the degrees of difference so produced are often, as in dogs, greater than those on which distinctions of species are in other cases founded.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 3 weeks ago
Thus there is nothing waste, nothing...

Thus there is nothing waste, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearence. We might compare this to the appearence of a pond in the distance, where we can see the confused movement and swarming of the fish, without distinguishing the fish themselves.Thus we are that each living body has a dominante entelechy, which in case of an animal is the soul, but the members of this living body are full of other living things, plants and animals, of which each has in turn ita dominant entelechy or soul.

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Monadology (69-70).
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
2 months 1 week ago
When the slave auctioneer asked in...

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 74
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is in vain to dream...

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

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August 30, 1856
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
Titles of property, for instance railway...

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

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Vol. II, Ch. X, p. 215.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
This is how I recognize an...

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 months 1 week ago
Choose a wife who is of...

Choose a wife who is of character, because that one is good who in the end is more respected.

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(p. 60)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
For the world to become….

For the world to become philosophic amounts to philosophy's becoming world-order reality; and it means that philosophy, at the same time that it is realized, disappears.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
Every artist was first an amateur....

Every artist was first an amateur.

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Progress of Culture
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 3 weeks ago
Americans combine to give fêtes, found...

Americans combine to give fêtes, found seminaries, build churches, distribute books, and send missionaries to the antipodes. Hospitals, prisons, and schools take shape in that way. Finally, if they want to proclaim a truth or propagate some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association. In every case, at the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association. I have come across several types of association in America of which, I confess, I had not previously the slightest conception, and I have often admired the extreme skill they show in proposing a common object for the exertions of very many and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it.

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Book Two, Chapter V.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks ago
The measure of a man...

The measure of a man is a man. Justice, morality, ethics, fairness, goodness all based on the preservation of life. You can do other things, but you'd be Good by coincidence.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks ago
Just then another visitor entered the...

Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew Bolkónski, the little princess' husband. He was a very handsome young man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna Pávlovna's hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company.

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Bk. I, Ch. IV
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 2 weeks ago
Do the essences of proposition and...

Do the essences of proposition and of the truth determine themselves from out of the essence of the thing, or does the essence of the thing determine itself from out of the essence of the proposition? The question is posed as an either/or. However does this either/or itself suffice? Are the essence of the thing and the essence of the proposition only built as mirror images because both of them together determine themselves from out of the same but deeper lying root? However, what and where can be this common ground for the essence of the thing and of the proposition and of their origin? The unconditioned (Unbedingt)? We stated at the beginning that what conditions the essense of the thing in its thingness can no longer itself be thing and conditioned, it must be an unconditioned (Un-bedingtes).

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p. 47
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 3 weeks ago
Therefore only an utterly senseless person...

Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 weeks ago
"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be...

"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
1 month 3 weeks ago
In Germany, the judicial system has...

In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries.

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Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
2 months 1 week ago
When the individual finds in her...

When the individual finds in her conscience beliefs that are relevant to public policy but incapable of the defense on the basis of beliefs common to her fellow citizens, she must sacrifice her conscience on the altar of public expediency.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 3 weeks ago
While all these are disturbed and...

While all these are disturbed and divided by the multifarious objects to which their thoughts must be applied, the Philosopher pursues, in solitary silence and in unbroken concentration of mind, his single and undeviating course towards the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; and that is his daily labour, to which others can only resort at times for rest and refreshment after toil.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
I found one day in school...

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

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p. 31
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 1 week ago
What is the Church? She is...

What is the Church? She is the body of Christ. Join to it the Head, and you have one man: The Head and the body make up one man. Who is the head? He who was born of the Virgin Mary. And what is His body? It is His Spouse, that is, the Church.... The Father willed that these two, the God Christ and the Church, should be one man. All men are one man in Christ, and the unity of the Christians constitutes but one man. And this man is all men, all men are this man; for all are one, since Christ is one.

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p. 414
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 3 weeks ago
Knowledge can in part be set...

Knowledge can in part be set aside, and one can then go further in order to collect new; the natural scientist can set aside insects and flowers and then go further, but if the existing person sets aside the decision in existence, it is eo ipso lost, and he is changed.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
The tool, as we have seen,...

The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.

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Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 2, pg. 422.
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 2 weeks ago
Besides, we should never attempt to...

Besides, we should never attempt to balance anybody's misery against somebody else's happiness.

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pp. 486-487
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 4 weeks ago
There is a sort of gratification...

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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Book III, Ch. 2
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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 6 days ago
For it is not death or...

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

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(Book II, ch. 1) Book II, ch. 1, 13.
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 1 week ago
God judged it better to bring...

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27
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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 6 days ago
But there is nothing…

But there is nothing sweeter than to dwell in towers that rise On high, serene and fortified with teachings of the wise, From which you may peer down upon the others as they stray This way and that, seeking the path of life, losing their way: The skirmishing of wits, the scramble for renown, the fight, Each striving harder than the next, and struggling day and night, To climb atop a heap of riches and lay claim to might.

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Book II, lines 7-13 (tr. Stallings)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
A man cannot become a child...

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

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Introduction, p. 31.
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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 6 days ago
Therefore death is nothing…

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

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Book III, lines 830-831 (tr. Rouse)
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
3 months 1 week ago
Natural inclinations are present in things...

Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.

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III, 126, 3
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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
4 weeks 1 day ago
Much early alchemy seems to have...

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

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Chapter 4, Evidence, p. 36.
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 3 weeks ago
How will one part of the...

How will one part of the infinite be above, and another below? Or how will it have extremes or a middle? Further still, every sensible body is in place; but the species and differences of place are upward and downward, before and behind, to the right hand and to the left: and these things not only thus subsist with relation to us, and by position, but have a definite subsistence in the universe itself. But it is impossible that these things should be in the infinite: and... that there should be an infinite place. But every body is in place; and therefore it is also impossible that there should be an infinite body. ...Therefore ...there is not an infinite body in energy.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 weeks 3 days ago
Books are good enough in their...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

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An Apology for Idlers.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
There are those who blame the...

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

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p. 133
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 months 1 week ago
From an ill-natured man take no...

From an ill-natured man take no loan.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 3 weeks ago
People ... become so preoccupied with...

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

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Ethics (New York:1915), § 14, pp. 38-39
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks ago
The conscience of a man of...

The conscience of a man of our circle, if he retains but a scrap of it, cannot rest, and poisons all the comforts and enjoyments of life supplied to us by the labour of our brothers, who suffer and perish at that labour. And not only does every conscientious man feel this himself (he would be glad to forget it, but cannot do so in our age) but all the best part of science and art - that part which has not forgotten the purpose of its vocation - continually reminds us of our cruelty and of our unjustifiable position. The old firm justifications are all destroyed; the new ephemeral justifications of the progress of science for science's sake and art for art's sake do not stand the light of simple common sense. Men's consciences cannot be set at rest by new excuses, but only by a change of life which will make any justification of oneself unnecessary as there will be nothing needing justification.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 weeks ago
Few persons care to study logic,...

Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men. We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.

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Illustrations of the Logic of Science First Paper - The Fixation of Belief", in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12
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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
1 month 1 week ago
Implication is thus the very texture...

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

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