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Why do ye also transgress the...

Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
3 months 2 weeks ago
And the final event to himself...

And the final event to himself has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

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On Edmund Burke's reactions to the American and French revolutions.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 2 weeks ago
Life consists with wildness. The most...

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
I know that my birth is...

I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 2 weeks ago
Someone once asked me, "If you...

Someone once asked me, "If you had your choice, Dr. Asimov, would it be women or writing?" My answer was, "Well, I can write for twelve hours at a time without getting tired."

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 2 weeks ago
After these matters we ought perhaps...

After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain; it is thought, too, that to enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on virtue of character. For these things extend right through life, with a weight and power of their own in respect both to virtue and to the happy life, since men choose what is pleasant and avoid what is painful; and such things, it will be thought, we should least of all omit to discuss, especially since they admit of much dispute.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months ago
It is true that parents today...

It is true that parents today are learning to enhance the physical qualities of their children. But their minds and characters they cannot mould. The antiquated system of education and our perverse social influences unfortunately do that. In view of the numerous misfit and marred children these institutions have created, I am quite content not to have contributed any of my own.

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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
1 week 4 days ago
A scientist worthy….

A scientist worthy of the name, above all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ...we work not only to obtain the positive results which, according to the profane, constitute our one and only affection, as to experience this esthetic emotion and to convey it to others who are capable of experiencing it.

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"Notice sur Halphen," Journal de l'École Polytechnique (Paris, 1890), 60ème cahier, p. 143.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 2 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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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 3 weeks ago
When we are inclined to boast...

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

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That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew Luther's Works, American Edition (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1962), Vol. 45, p. 201
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Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
3 days ago
If historical experience could teach us...

If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

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Chapter XV. The Market, § 4 The Scope and Method of Catallactics
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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 2 weeks ago
Properly understood, then, the desire to...

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

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Chapter IV, Section 40, p. 256
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 1 week ago
We ourselves are the entities to...

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 2 weeks ago
The great event of this period,...

The great event of this period, the great trauma, is this decline of strong referentials, these death pangs of the real and of the rational that open onto an age of simulation. Whereas so many generations, and particularly the last, lived in the march of history, in the euphoric or catastrophic expectation of a revolution-today one has the impression that history has retreated, leaving behind it an indifferent nebula, traversed by currents, but emptied of references. It is into this void that the phantasms of a past history recede, the panoply of events, ideologies, retro fashions-no longer so much because people believe in them or still place some hope in them, but simply to resurrect the period when at least there was history, at least there was violence (albeit fascist), when at least life and death were at stake.

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"History: A Retro Scenario," pp. 43-44
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
1 month 1 week ago
All the measures now proposed are...

All the measures now proposed are only a compromise with the errors of the present systems; but as these errors now almost universally exist, and must be overcome solely by the force of reason; and as reason, to effect the most beneficial purposes, makes her advance by slow degrees, and progressively substantiates one truth of high import after another, it will be evident, to minds of comprehensive and accurate thought, that by these and similar compromises alone can success be rationally expected in practice. For such compromises bring truth and error before the public; and whenever they are fairly exhibited together, truth must ultimately prevail.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
2 days ago
He who has injured….

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

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De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
3 weeks 5 days ago
What is an artist? A provincial...

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

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Every Time We Say Goodbye in Sight and Sound [London]
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 2 weeks ago
That which is desirable on its...

That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 2 weeks ago
A moral point of view too...

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
Every commodity is compelled to chose...

Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 3, pg. 65.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is a serious question…

It is a serious question among them whether they [Africans] are descended from monkeys or whether the monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man was created in the image of God. Now here is a lovely image of the Divine Maker: a flat and black nose with little or hardly any intelligence. A time will doubtless come when these animals will know how to cultivate the land well, beautify their houses and gardens, and know the paths of the stars: one needs time for everything.

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Les Lettres d'Amabed (1769): Septième Lettre d'Amabed
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 month 1 week ago
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was...

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

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"Why I became a conservative," The New Criterion
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 2 weeks ago
Machines are worshipped because they are...

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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Ch. 6: Machines and the Emotions
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Great men, great nations, have not...

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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Fate
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 2 weeks ago
A dream! What is a dream?...

A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times - but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness - that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
2 months 2 weeks ago
There is no….

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

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"Ideas," Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139
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William James
William James
3 months 2 weeks ago
The more rational statement is that...

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble, because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
3 weeks 5 days ago
Many city-dwellers have a romanticized conception...

Many city-dwellers have a romanticized conception of the living world. From another perspective, some "conservation biologists" favour e.g. "Pleistocene rewilding". By contrast, I think any truly compassionate person should be horrified at the terrible suffering of Nature "red in tooth and claw". Why not aim for a cruelty-free world instead?

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"Interview with Pensata Animal", Pensata Animal, 25 Oct. 2009
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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
3 days ago
The difficulty in our education up...

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 2 weeks ago
When the rich make war…

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
To think is to run after...

To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 1 week ago
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the...

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months ago
Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and...

Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Once we have tasted the sweetness...

Once we have tasted the sweetness of what is spiritual, the pleasures of the world will have no attraction for us. If we disregard the shadows of things, then we will penetrate their inner substance.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 3 weeks ago
Men are at variance...
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 3 weeks ago
That some have never dreamed is...

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 2 weeks ago
France has done more for even...

France has done more for even English history than England has.

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John Stuart Mill. Michelet.On the writing of English history. Complete Works Vol 20. Page 221.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
Freedom and not servitude is the...

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 3 weeks ago
The Union was a measure from...

The Union was a measure from which infinite Good has been derived to this country.

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Letter to William Strahan (4 April 1760), quoted in Adam Smith, The Correspondence of Adam Smith, eds. E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross (1987), p. 68
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months ago
The smartphone seems to be a...

The smartphone seems to be a playground, but it is a digital panopticon.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 month 1 week ago
Perpetual devotion to what a man...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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An Apology for Idlers.
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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 1 week ago
The way of the superior man...

The way of the superior man may be found, in its simple elements, in the intercourse of common men and women; but in its utmost reaches, it shines brightly through Heaven and Earth.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is very strange that men...

It is very strange that men should deny a creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

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From the Philosophic Dictionary, as quoted in The life of Pasteur, 1902
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William James
William James
3 months 2 weeks ago
The most violent revolutions in an...

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

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"What Pragmatism Means," Pragmatism, pp. 60-61 (1931); lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 3 days ago
It is no advantage to be...

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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p. 607
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
2 months 2 weeks ago
Time: That which man is always...

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

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Definitions, as quoted in The Dictionary of Essential Quotations (1983) by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, p. 154
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks 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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Solution, ll. 35-42
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
'Tis a good word and a...

Tis a good word and a profitable desire, but withal absurd; for to make the handle bigger than the hand, the cubic longer than the arm, and to hope to stride further than our legs can reach, is both impossible and monstrous; or that man should rise above himself and humanity; for he cannot see but with his eyes, nor seize but with his hold. He shall be exalted, if God will lend him an extraordinary hand; he shall exalt himself, by abandoning and renouncing his own proper means, and by suffering himself to be raised and elevated by means purely celestial. It belongs to our Christian faith, and not to the stoical virtue, to pretend to that divine and miraculous metamorphosis.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
2 months 4 days ago
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body...

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

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No. 19. (Usbek writing to Rustan)
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Confidence is the only bond of...

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

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