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4 months 2 weeks ago

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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1 month 2 weeks ago

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

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Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris
3 months 4 weeks ago

The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

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Ch. 2
5 months 1 week ago

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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Book I, epistle i, line 11
6 months 2 weeks ago

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

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5 months 1 week ago

The sight of both eyes becomes one.

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fr. 88
1 month 1 week ago

But for my part (Continues Carneades) what my Indignation at this Un-philosophical way of teaching Principles has now extorted from me, is meant chiefly to excuse my self, if I shall hereafter oppose any Particular Opinion or assertion, that some Follower of Paracelsus or any Eminent Artist may pretend not to be his Masters. For, as I told you long since, I am not Oblig'd to examine private mens writings, (which were a Labour as endless as unprofitable) being only engag'd to examine those Opinions about the Tria Prima, which I find those Chymists I have met with to agree in most: And I Doubt not but my Arguments against their Doctrine will be in great part easily enough applicable ev'n to those private Opinions, which they do not so directly and expresly oppose.

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3 months 1 day ago

What J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were to the Age of Robber Barons, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, as well as digital moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are to the contemporary age of the rule of the 1%. Then as now, the super-rich used governments to write laws and rules to allow them to accumulate unlimited wealth; then as now, creating monopolies by enclosing the commons and killing competition is the strategy for becoming the 1%.

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1 month 2 weeks ago

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes has no value for him.

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III. 4, trans. Maxwell Staniforth
1 month 3 weeks ago

One can learn such a lot and enjoy such a lot in seventy years, and three generations is a long, long time to see human follies and acquire human wisdom. Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough to witness the changes of fashion and morals and politics through the rise and fall of three generations should be perfectly satisfied to rise from his seat and go away saying, "It was a good show," when the curtain falls.

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p. 23-24
1 month 4 weeks ago

I have twice gone fishing with rod and line just because other boys asked me to, but this sport was soon made impossible for me by the treatment of the worms that were put on the hook for bait, and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes that were caught. I gave it up, and even found courage enough to dissuade other boys from going.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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Electra to her brother Orestes, Act 2
6 months 6 days ago

All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

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4 months 2 weeks ago

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

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1 month 1 week ago

For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.

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3 months 4 weeks ago

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

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5 months 3 weeks ago

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

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No. 247
3 months 1 day ago

Just like Chief Seattle talked about being in the web of life, in India we talk about vasudhaiva kutumbkam, which means the earth family. Indian cosmology has never separated the human from the non-human-we are a continuum.

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4 months 2 weeks ago

The quality of feeling is the true psychical representative of the first category of the immediate as it is in its immediacy, of the present in its direct positive presentness. Qualities of feeling show myriad-fold variety, far beyond what the psychologists admit. This variety however is in them only insofar as they are compared and gathered into collections. But as they are in their presentness, each is sole and unique; and all the others are absolute nothingness to it - or rather much less than nothingness, for not even a recognition as absent things or as fictions is accorded to them. The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 1 : Presentness, CP 5.44
6 months 3 days ago

Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him. The woman shall be subject to man as unto Christ. For woman, has not her example from the body and from the flesh, that so she shall be subject to man, as the flesh is unto the Spirit, because that the flesh in the weakness and mortality of this life lusts and strives against the Spirit, and therefore would not the Holy Ghost give example of subjection to the woman of any such thing.

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As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (1558)
5 months 1 week ago

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

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Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian
4 months 2 weeks ago

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

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2 months 2 days ago

Worse than war is the very fear of war.

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line 572 (Chorus).
4 months 2 weeks ago

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

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1 month 3 weeks ago

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

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p. 332
1 month 2 weeks ago

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

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3 months 3 days ago

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

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Emancipation - Black and White
5 months 2 weeks ago

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

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Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, "The Christian religion as a natural religion"
5 months 2 weeks ago

Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels. No science is required for the purpose of establishing such truths; no rules of art can render our knowledge of them more certain than it is in itself. There is no logic for this portion of our knowledge.

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p. 4
1 month 1 week ago

It's not about telling people how to be, outside of supporting ideals that teach us what to avoid.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

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Ch. 7: The Case for Socialism
1 month 2 weeks ago

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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Letter to George Washington (9 September 1792) The word "censor" in this context means one who censures or an adverse critic not an official who decides what can be published.
5 months 2 weeks ago

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

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Letter X
5 months 2 weeks ago

We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

If a man own land, the land owns him.

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Wealth
4 months 1 week ago

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.
3 months 2 weeks ago

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this, not only without turning away from, but with a greatly increased interest in the common feelings and common destiny of human beings.

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(p. 148)
5 months 2 weeks ago

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

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"One and Many," p. 3
5 months 2 weeks ago

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.

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Ch. 8: Economic Power
4 months 4 days ago

And what is its moral proof? We may formulate it thus: Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death. Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die tomorrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized. The end of morality is to give personal, human finality to the Universe; to discover the finality that belongs to it - if indeed it has any finality - and to discover it by acting.

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5 months 3 weeks ago

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

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Chapter VIII, p. 81.
4 months 2 weeks ago

I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth - it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it. Then give up deceiving people; confess ignorance of what you don't know, and leave everyone to form his own articles of faith for himself. Perhaps they won't turn out so bad, especially as they'll rub one another's corners down, and mutually rectify mistakes. The existence of many views will at any rate lay a foundation of tolerance. Those who possess knowledge and capacity may betake themselves to the study of philosophy, or even in their own persons carry the history of philosophy a step further.

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"Religion: A Dialogue." Variant translation: To free a man from error does not mean to take something from him, but to give him something.
4 months ago

The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

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Chapter Seven, The Great Synthesis…
4 months 2 weeks ago

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

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