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bell hooks
bell hooks
3 weeks 2 days ago
Feminist thought and practice were fundamentally...

Feminist thought and practice were fundamentally altered when radical women of color and white women allies began to rigorously challenge the notion of "gender" was the primary factor determining a woman's fate. I can still recall how it upset everyone in the first women's studies class I attended-a class where everyone except me was white and female and mostly from privileged backgrounds-when I interrupted a discussion about the origins of domination in which it was argued that when a child is coming out of the womb the factor deemed most important is gender. I stated that when the child of two black parents is coming out of the womb the factor that is considered first is skin color, then gender, because race and gender will determine that child's fate. Looking at the interlocking nature of gender, race, and class was the perspective that changed the direction of feminist thought.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
3 weeks 2 days ago
Radical black feminists have never confined...

Radical black feminists have never confined their vision to just the emancipation of black women or women in general, or all black people for that matter. Rather, they are the theorists and proponents of a radical humanism committed to liberating humanity and reconstructing social relations across the board. When bell hooks says "Feminism is for everybody," she is echoing what has always been a basic assumption of black feminists. We are not talking about identity politics but a constantly developing often contested, revolutionary conversation about how all of us might envision and remake the world.

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Robin Kelley Freedom Dreams
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 2 weeks ago
There can be no doubt that...

There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.

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Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) Vol. 10, p. 268
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 5 days ago
To fall into a habit is...

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
5 days ago
Alas! in the clothes of the...

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

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The Suicide Club, Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts.
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 1 week ago
The will is the living principle...

The will is the living principle of the rational soul, is indeed itself reason, when purely and simply apprehended. That reason is itself active, means, that the pure will, as such, rules and is effectual. The infinite reason alone lies immediately and entirely in the purely spiritual order. The finite being lives necessarily at the same time in a sensuous order; that is to say, in one which presents to him other objects than those of pure reason; a material object, to be advanced by instruments and powers, standing indeed under the immediate command of the will, but whose efficacy is conditional also on its own natural laws.

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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.104
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 1 week ago
Art, I suppose, is only for...

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
The young today cannot follow narrative...

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

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Letter to Harold Adam Innis (14 March 1951), published in Essential McLuhan (1995), edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, p. 74
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
2 days ago
Conservatives believe that our identities and...

Conservatives believe that our identities and values are formed through our relations with other people, and not through our relation with the state. The state is not an end but a means. Civil society is the end, and the state is the means to protect it. The social world emerges through free association, rooted in friendship and community life. And the customs and institutions that we cherish have grown from below, by the 'invisible hand' of co-operation. They have rarely been imposed from above by the work of politics, the role of which, for a conservative, is to reconcile our many aims, and not to dictate or control them.

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"Stand up for the real meaning of freedom," The Spectator
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 2 weeks ago
An American cannot converse, but he...

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

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Chapter XIV.
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 1 week ago
Evolution is definable as a change...

Evolution is definable as a change from an incoherent homogeneity to a coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

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Pt. II, The Knowable; Ch. XV, The Law of Evolution (continued)
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
3 weeks 4 days ago
When I read the catechism of...

When I read the catechism of the Council of Trent, it seems as though I had nothing in common with the religion there set forth.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 1 week ago
From the winter of 1821, when...

From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object. The personal sympathies I wished for were those of fellow labourers in this enterprise. I endeavoured to pick up as many flowers as I could by the way; but as a serious and permanent personal satisfaction to rest upon, my whole reliance was placed on this...

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
There are some simple maxims [...]...

There are some simple maxims [...] which I think might be commanded to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

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"How I Write", The Writer, September 1954
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 1 week ago
But it is better to assume...

But it is better to assume principles less in number and finite, as Empedocles makes them to be. All philosophers... make principles to be contraries... (for Parmenides makes principles to be hot and cold, and these he demominates fire and earth) as those who introduce as principles the rare and the dense. But Democritus makes the principles to be the solid and the void; of which the former, he says, has the relation of being, and the latter of non-being. ...it is necessary that principles should be neither produced from each other, nor from other things; and that from these all things should be generated. But these requisites are inherent in the first contraries: for, because they are first, they are not from other things; and because they are contraries, they are not from each other.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 1 week ago
The adjective…

The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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Variants: The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Quote attributed in Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by Mrs Rudolf Dircks), Essays of Schopenhauer (2004), Kessinger Publishing, p. 31
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
6 days ago
The judge is condemned…

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

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Maxim 407 Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
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Patience is a remedy for every...

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

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Maxim 170
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 week 5 days ago
This world wants to be childish...

This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere-that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 13
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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 1 week ago
In justice as fairness society is...

In justice as fairness society is interpreted as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage.

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Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 84
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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
2 weeks 3 days ago
In sum, a theory is only...

In sum, a theory is only accepted if the theory has substantial, non-ad hoc, explanatory successes. This is in accordance with Popper; unfortunately, it is in even better accordance with the 'inductivist' accounts that Popper rejects, since these stress support rather than falsification.

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The 'corroboration' of theories
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
5 days ago
Youth now flees on feathered foot....

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
Applaud us when we run, console...

Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.

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Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 129
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The universe is what it is,...

The universe is what it is, not what I choose that it should be.

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The Value of Free Thought: How to Become a Truth-seeker and Break the Chains of Mental Slavery (1944), p. 24
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 4 weeks ago
All people respect and love their...

All people respect and love their own parents and children, as well as the parents and children of others.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 6 days ago
Since we're all going to die,...

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
Superstition is more injurious to God...

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 6 days ago
Maman used to say that you...

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness...

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

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Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 192
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nothing is in the intellect that...

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

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q. 2, art. 3, arg. 19 This is known as the Peripatetic axiom.
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 days ago
I am the door: by me...

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

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10:9-11
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
3 weeks 4 days ago
A society like the Church, which...

A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license.

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Devil disguised. p. 122
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
2 months 1 week ago
Judges of elegance and taste consider...

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

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Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811); translation by Richard Smith, The Rationale of Reward, J. & H. L. Hunt, London, 1825, Bk. 3, Ch. 1
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 1 week ago
"You're a bitter man," said Candide....

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 1 week ago
The thing done avails, and not...

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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First Visit to England
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 2 weeks ago
They (the emperors) frequently abused their...

They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the greater number; .. But it would seem that if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them.

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Book Four, Chapter VI.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 week 4 days ago
One of the great American tragedies...

One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of.

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Interviewed by Roger Friedman, "God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut", FoxNews.com
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George Santayana
George Santayana
1 month 2 days ago
It is not society's fault that...

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

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Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 week 2 days ago
People continued - regardless of all...

People continued - regardless of all that leads man forward - to try to unite the incompatibles : the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

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III
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 1 week ago
I assert, that the ancient Whigs...

I assert, that the ancient Whigs held doctrines, totally different from those I have last mentioned. I assert, that the foundations laid down by the Commons, on the trial of Doctor Sacheverel, for justifying the revolution of 1688, are the very same laid down in Mr. Burke's Reflections; that is to say,-a breach of the original contract, implied and expressed in the constitution of this country, as a scheme of government fundamentally and inviolably fixed in King, Lords, and Commons.-That the fundamental subversion of this antient constitution, by one of its parts, having been attempted, and in effect accomplished, justified the Revolution. That it was justified only upon the necessity of the case; as the only means left for the recovery of that antient constitution, formed by the original contract of the British state; as well as for the future preservation of the same government. These are, the points to be proved.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 week 2 days ago
You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate!...

You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.

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p. 37
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 month 2 days ago
The remembrance of forbidden fruit is...

The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.

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Chapter I: Moral Obligation
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
2 months 2 weeks ago
The things that we can see...

The things that we can see with our physical eyes are mere shadows of reality. If they appear ugly and ill formed, then what must be the ugliness of the soul in sin, deprived of all light? The soul, like the body, can undergo transformation in appearance. In sin it appears as completely ugly to the beholder. In virtue it shines resplendently before God.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 4 weeks ago
The superior man, while there is...

The superior man, while there is anything he has not studied, or while in what he has studied there is anything he cannot understand, Will not intermit his labor. While there is anything he has not inquired about, or anything in what he has inquired about which he does not know, he will not intermit his labor. While there is anything which he has not reflected on, or anything in what he has reflected on which he does not apprehend, he will not intermit his labor. While there is anything which he has not discriminated or his discrimination is not clear, he will not intermit his labor. If there be anything which he has not practiced, or his practice fails in earnestness, he will not intermit his labor. If another man succeed by one effort, he will use a hundred efforts. If another man succeed by ten efforts, he will use a thousand. Let a man proceed in this way, and, though dull, he will surely become intelligent; though weak, he will surely become strong.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 4 days ago
But there is only...
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 1 week ago
I do not think the resemblance...

I do not think the resemblance between the Christian and the merely imaginative experience is accidental. I think that all things, in their own way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "Reflect" is the important word. This lower life of the imagination is not a beginning of, nor a step toward, the higher life of the spirit, merely an image.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week ago
The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic...

The telegraph press mosaic is acoustic space as much as an electric circus.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 1 week ago
But what is love….

Theologian: But what is to love? Philosopher: To be delighted by the happiness of another.

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Confessio philosophi, 1673
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is the mind that maketh...

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 week ago
I wish to suggest that a...

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

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