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Henry George
Henry George
2 months 3 weeks ago
Poverty is a crime. I do...

Poverty is a crime. I do not mean that it is a crime to be poor. Murder is a crime; but it is not a crime to be murdered; and a man who is in poverty, I look upon, not as a criminal in himself, so much as the victim of a crime for which others, as well perhaps as himself, are responsible.

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The Crime of Poverty, 1885
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
7 months 4 days ago
Some impose upon the world that...

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

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Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is literally true that the...

It is literally true that the toleration of banks of paper discount costs the United States one-half their war taxes; or, in other words, doubles the expenses of every war. Now think but for a moment, what a change of condition that would be, which should save half our war expenses, require but half the taxes, and enthral us in debt but half the time.

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ME 13:364
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
7 months 4 days ago
There is no man so good,...

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 months 3 weeks ago
If death had only negative aspects,...

If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 months 3 weeks ago
Everyone must destroy their life. According...

Everyone must destroy their life. According to the way they do it, they're either triumphants or failures.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
4 months 2 weeks ago
It may be that the public...

It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government, that, having become instructed in European knowledge, they may, in some future age, demand European institutions. Whether such a day will ever come I know not. But never will I attempt to avert or to retard it. Whenever it comes, it will be the proudest day in English history.

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Speech in the House of Commons
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4 months 3 weeks 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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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
5 months 1 week ago
The Text is plural. Which is...

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

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Proposition 4
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 3 weeks ago
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Jesus
Jesus
5 months 2 weeks ago
O faithless and perverse generation, how...

O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

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17:17 (KJV)
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
4 months 3 weeks ago
Poetry and the arts can't exist...

Poetry and the arts can't exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

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Letter to Ezra Pound
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
4 months 1 week ago
I find I am shedding hypocrisy...

I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

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Ch. 2; part of this statement has often been paraphrased: "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
6 months 2 weeks ago
A righteous government is of all...

A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more.

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Vohu-Khshathra Gatha; Yasna 51, 1.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
6 months 3 weeks ago
He was often, and much beyond...

He was often, and much beyond reason, provoked by my failures in cases where success could not have been expected; but in the main his method was right, and it succeeded. I do not believe that any scientific teaching ever was more thorough, or better fitted for training the faculties, than the mode in which logic and political economy were taught to me by my father. Striving, even in an exaggerated degree, to call forth the activity of my faculties, by making me find out everything for myself, he gave his explanations not before, but after, I had felt the full force of the difficulties; and not only gave me an accurate knowledge of these two great subjects, as far as they were then understood, but made me a thinker on both.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
6 months 3 weeks ago
The political triumph of Donald Trump...

The political triumph of Donald Trump is a symbol and symptom-not cause or origin-of our imperial meltdown. Trump is neither alien nor extraneous to American culture and history. In fact, he is as American as apple pie. Yet he is a sign of our spiritual bankruptcy-all spectacle and no substance, all narcissism and no empathy, all appetite and greed and no wisdom and maturity. Yet his triumph flows from the implosion of a Republican Party establishment beholden to big money, big military, and big scapegoating of vulnerable peoples of color, LGBTQ peoples, immigrants, Muslims, and women; from a Democratic Party establishment beholden to big money, big military, and the clever deployment of peoples of color, LGBTQ peoples, immigrants, Muslims, and women to hide and conceal the lies and crimes of neoliberal policies here and abroad; and from a corporate media establishment that aided and abetted Trump owing to high profits and revenues.

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2017 introduction
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 months 3 weeks ago
What we want is not freedom...

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

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Melissus of Samos
Melissus of Samos
2 months 3 weeks ago
…nothing is stronger…

...nothing is stronger than true reality.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
7 months ago
When profit diminishes, merchants are very...

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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Chapter IX
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
6 months 3 weeks ago
The object of art - like...

The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

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Introduction, p. 12.
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William Whewell
William Whewell
2 months 3 weeks ago
The distinction of Fact and Theory...

The distinction of Fact and Theory is only relative. Brute animals have a practical knowledge of relations of space and force; but they have no knowledge of Geometry or Mechanicks.

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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
3 months 6 days ago
After Riemann had made known his...

After Riemann had made known his discoveries, mathematicians busied themselves with working out his system of geometrical ideas formally; chief among these were Christoffel, Ricci, and Levi-Civita. Riemann... clearly left the real development of his ideas in the hands of some subsequent scientist whose genius as a physicist could rise to equal flights with his own as a mathematician. After a lapse of seventy years this mission has been fulfilled by Einstein.

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Ch. 2 "The Metrical Continuum"
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Confucius
Confucius
7 months 2 weeks ago
Virtuous, worthy, wise and capable people...

Virtuous, worthy, wise and capable people are chosen as leaders.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
6 months 3 weeks ago
One unscrupulous distortion of the truth...

One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.

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Ch. 14, p. 316 [2012 reprint]
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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
5 months 2 weeks ago
Antiquity believed that the forces of...

Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.

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L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 94
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
6 months 3 weeks ago
They made me take cod liver...

They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: "Give me bread".

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Act 3, sc. 3
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
2 months 3 weeks ago
If you do the job in...

If you do the job in a principled way, with diligence, energy and patience, if you keep yourself free of distractions, and keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment- If you can embrace this without fear or expectation-can find fulfillment in what you're doing now, as Nature intended, and in superhuman truthfulness (every word, every utterance)-then your life will be happy.

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(Hays translation)- III, 12
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
6 months 1 day ago
In order to shake a hypothesis,...

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

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No. 50
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 months 3 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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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
5 months 3 weeks ago
Only through blind Instinct, in which...

Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
4 months 3 weeks ago
Money is a corporate image depending...

Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status.

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(p. 133)
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4 months 3 weeks ago
The compassionate are not rich; therefore,...

The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
5 months 1 week ago
Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us...

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big. Let us not overlook vital things because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing: to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better. That alone can fill the emptiness, and transform the tragedy of woman's emancipation into joy, limitless joy.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
5 months 3 weeks ago
Freedom and whores are the most...

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. .

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Act IV
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
4 months 1 week ago
Our western science is a child...

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

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"A Turning Point in Man's Destiny", The New York Times Magazine (26 December 1954) p. 5
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
6 months 3 weeks ago
The good life is one inspired...

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
6 months 3 weeks ago
Of the evils most liable to...

Of the evils most liable to attend on any sort of early proficiency, and which often fatally blights its promise, my father most anxiously guarded against. This was self-conceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilance, out of the way of hearing myself praised, or of being led to make self-flattering comparisons between myself and others. From his own intercourse with me I could derive none but a very humble opinion of myself; and the standard of comparison he always held up to me, was not what other people did, but what a man could and ought to do. He completely succeeded in preserving me from the sort of influences he so much dreaded. I was not at all aware that my attainments were anything unusual at my age.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
5 months 1 week ago
Although people seem to be unaware...

Although people seem to be unaware of it today, the development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
6 months 3 weeks ago
Subject matters in general do not...

Subject matters in general do not exist. There are no subject matters; no branches of learning-or, rather, of inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
5 months 3 weeks ago
France had endeavoured under the specious...

France had endeavoured under the specious pretext of an enlarged benevolence, to sow the seeds of enmity among nations, and destroy all local attachments, calling them narrow and illiberal-thereby to dissever the people from their governors.

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Speech in the House of Commons on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill (9 April 1793)
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
7 months 4 days ago
Mother love is stronger than the...

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

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
5 months 3 weeks ago
To live classically and to realize...

To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.

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Philosophical Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 147
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
7 months 5 days ago
Some books are to be tasted,...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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Of Studies
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
6 months 3 weeks ago
The youth gets together his materials...

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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July 14, 1852
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
5 months 6 days ago
We do not think good metaphors...

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on...

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E 91 Variant translation: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
7 months 3 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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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
6 months 3 weeks ago
There are all kinds of sources...

There are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority ... The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
6 months 3 weeks ago
I think modern educational theorists are...

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

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Ch. 12: Education and Discipline
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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
3 months 1 week ago
Just as the wave cannot exist...

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

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Chapter 26
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
7 months 4 days ago
How many things served us…

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

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Ch. 27. Of Friendship
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