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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
3 months 1 week ago
Divinity reveals herself in all things......

Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

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As translated by Arthur Imerti
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
2 months 3 weeks ago
The role of philosophy might be...

The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

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Ch. 9, p. 137
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
2 months 2 weeks ago
Democratic and aristocratic states are not...

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man who has power is inclined to abuse it; he goes until he finds limits. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits?.To prevent this abuse, it is necessary that, by the arrangement of things, power shall stop power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits.

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Book XI, Chapter 4.
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven...

Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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4:17 (KJV)
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 1 week ago
The Mass is the greatest blasphemy...

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 3 weeks ago
Positive philosophy made its counter-attack against...

Positive philosophy made its counter-attack against critical rationalism on two fronts. Comte fought against the French form of negative philosophy, against the heritage of Descartes and the Enlightenment. In Germany, the struggle was directed against Hegel's system. Schelling received an express commission from Frederick William IV 'to destroy the dragon seed' of Hegelianism, while Stahl, another anti-Hegelian, became the philosophical spokesman of the Prussian monarchy in 1840.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 1 week ago
It is almost impossible to bear...

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. G 4 Variant translations: It is almost impossible to carry the torch of wisdom through a crowd without singeing someone's beard. It is virtually impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd, without singeing someone's beard

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Ye do err, not knowing the...

Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

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22:29-32 (KJV)
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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
2 weeks 2 days ago
Criticism actually says: You must free...

Criticism actually says: You must free your I so completely from all limitations that it becomes a human I. I say: Free yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; because it is not given to everyone to break through all limits, or, more eloquently: that is not a limit for everyone which is one to the others. Consequently, don't exhaust yourself on the limits of others; it's enough if you tear down your own. Who has ever been able to break down even one limit for all people? Aren't countless people today, as at all times, running around with all the "limitations of humanity"? One who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

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Landstreicher 2017, p. 97
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months ago
All violence consists in some people...

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4 months 3 days ago
The thirst after happiness is never...

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
2 months 1 week ago
A book is a small cog...

A book is a small cog in a much more complex, external machinery. Writing is a flow among others; it enjoys no special privilege and enters into relationships of current and counter-current, of back-wash with other flows - the flows of shit, sperm, speech, action, eroticism, money, politics, etc. Like Bloom, writing on the sand with one hand and masturbating with the other - two flows in what relationship?

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from I have Nothing to Admit
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 4 days ago
Morality is a subject that interests...

Morality is a subject that interests us above all others: We fancy the peace of society to be at stake in every decision concerning it; and 'tis evident, that this concern must make our speculations appear more real and solid, than where the subject is, in a great measure, indifferent to us. What affects us, we conclude can never be a chimera; and as our passion is engag'd on the one side or the other, we naturally think that the question lies within human comprehension; which, in other cases of this nature, we are apt to entertain some doubt of. Without this advantage I never should have ventur'd upon a third volume of such abstruse philosophy, in an age, wherein the greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires any considerable degree of attention to be comprehended.

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Part 1, Section 1
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 2 weeks ago
Such words as spontaneity, sincerity, gratuitousness,...

Such words as spontaneity, sincerity, gratuitousness, richness, enrichment - words which imply an almost total indifference to contrasts of value - have come more often from their [the surrealists'] pens than words which contain a reference to good and evil. Moreover, this latter class of words has become degraded, especially those which refer to the good, as Valéry remarked some years ago. Words like virtue, nobility, honor, honesty, generosity, have become almost impossible to use or else they have acquired bastard meanings; language is no longer equipped for legitimately praising a man's character.

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"The responsibility of writers," p. 168
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 2 weeks ago
In the root of the word...

In the root of the word "faith" itself... there is implicit the idea of confidence, of surrender to the will of another, to a person. Confidence is placed only in persons. We trust in Providence, which we perceive as something personal and conscious, not in Fate, which is something impersonal. And thus it is in the person who tells us the truth, in the person that gives us hope, that we believe, not directly or immediately in truth itself or in hope itself.

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Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
2 weeks 2 days ago
The characteristic feature of militarism is...

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 months 6 days ago
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is...

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

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Section 25
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 2 days ago
No production without need....
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
4 months 1 week ago
"The first method for estimating the...

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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The Prince (1513), Ch. 22
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 1 week ago
Parents will strip themselves of everything,...

Parents will strip themselves of everything, will sacrifice everything for the physical well-being of their child, will wake nights and stand in fear and agony before some physical ailment of their beloved one; but will remain cold and indifferent, without the slightest understanding before the soul cravings and the yearnings of their child, neither hearing nor wishing to hear the loud knocking of the young spirit that demands recognition. On the contrary, they will stifle the beautiful voice of spring, of a new life of beauty and splendor of love; they will put the long lean finger of authority upon the tender throat and not allow vent to the silvery song of the individual growth, of the beauty of character, of the strength of love and human relation, which alone make life worth living.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Judge not, that you be not...

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 

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Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV) (Also Luke 6:37-42)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 2 weeks ago
I hold agitation to be essential,...

I hold agitation to be essential, not only to the obtaining of good and just measures, but to the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation; but, while we live in a free country, and under a free Government, your deprecation is vain and untenable... I say that the slave-trade would never have been abolished without agitation. I say that slavery would never have been abolished without agitation... What is agitation when it is examined, but the mode in which the people in the great outer assembly debate?

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Speech in the House of Commons, 29 January 1840
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 3 weeks ago
If any man will come after...

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

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16:24-28 (KJV)
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 3 weeks ago
When the whole is at stake,...

When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong-they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.

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pp. 82-83
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4 months 3 days ago
Let's go dance under the elms...

Let's go dance under the elms:

Step lively, young lassies.

Let's go dance under the elms:

Gallants, take up your pipes.

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Le devin du village, 1752
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
We make choices, decisions, as long...

We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither choose nor decide, we can do nothing but regret the surface...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
Someone who knows too much finds...

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
3 weeks 5 days ago
The regular rhythms of factory production...

The regular rhythms of factory production and its clear divisions of work time and nonwork time tend to decline in the realm of immaterial labor. Think how at the high end of labor market companies like Microsoft try to make the office more like home, offering free meals and exercise programs to keep employees in the office as many of their waking hours as possible. At the low end of the labor market workers have to juggle several job to make ends meet. Such practices always existed, but today, with the passage from Fordism to post-Fordism, the increased flexibility and mobility imposed on workers, and the decline of the stable, long-term employment typical of factory work, this tends to become the norm. At both the high end and low ends or labor market the new paradigm undermines the division between work time and the time of life.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
4 months 1 week ago
The logic now in use serves...

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Aphorism 7
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 1 day ago
But what is liberty without wisdom,...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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William James
William James
4 months ago
All the higher, more penetrating ideals...

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.

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"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" in address to the Yale Philosophical Club, published in the International Journal of Ethics, April 1891
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
1 month 3 weeks ago
People reserve their best thinking for...

People reserve their best thinking for their professional specialties and, next in line, for serious matters confronting the alert citizen -economics, politics, the disposal of nuclear waste, etc. The day's work done, they want to be entertained.

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p. 16
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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
1 week 4 days ago
Zen does not confuse spirituality with...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Paraphrase of original text which reads "It does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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The Way of Zen, Pt. 2, Ch. 2
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
2 months 2 weeks ago
In a free nation, it matters...

In a free nation, it matters not whether individuals reason well or ill; it is sufficient that they do reason. Truth arises from the collision and from hence springs liberty, which is a security from the effects of reasoning.

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Quoted by Thomas Erskine in the trial of Thomas Paine, 1792
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 3 weeks ago
You are of all my friends...

You are of all my friends the one who illustrates pragmatism in its most needful forms. You are a jewel of pragmatism.

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Letter to William James (16 March 1903), published in The thought and character of William James, as revealed in unpublished correspondence and notes (1935) by Ralph Barton Perry, Vol. 2, p. 427
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 4 weeks ago
The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm,...

The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm, but a certain lack of certainty was gathering, and he did not like to experience a lack of certainty. He liked nothing which made him aware of limitations. An Autarch should have no limitations, and on Lingane he had none that natural law did not impose.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 4 weeks ago
Confession of our faults…

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

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Maxim 1060
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Horace
Horace
3 months 2 weeks ago
For joys fall….

For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

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Book I, epistle xvii, line 9
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 day ago
One must look into hell before...

One must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

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Letter to Colette O'Niel, October 23, 1916; published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970, p. 87
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
2 months 3 weeks ago
Once the first radical attack on...

Once the first radical attack on private property has been launched, the proletariat will find itself forced to go ever further, to concentrate increasingly in the hands of the state all capital, all agriculture, all transport, all trade. All the foregoing measures are directed to this end; and they will become practicable and feasible, capable of producing their centralizing effects to precisely the degree that the proletariat, through its labor, multiplies the country's productive forces.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
2 months 1 week ago
I believe that man is the...

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 4 weeks ago
If He who in Himself can...

If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
2 months 2 days ago
What should young people do with...

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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Commencement Address to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, May 26, 1974
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4 months 3 days ago
Virtue is a state of war…

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.

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Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse (1761) Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the presence of God himself...

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 4 weeks ago
I do not understand! I understand...

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
3 weeks 4 days 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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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
3 months 1 week ago
Anger begins in folly, and ends...

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 4 days ago
But though empires, like all the...

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

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Chapter II, Part II, p. 896.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
To convince someone of the truth,...

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
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