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Epictetus
Epictetus
5 months 4 days ago
When you do anything from a...

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 2 weeks ago
I can be twenty women, one...

I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that's what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!

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Act 3, sc. 4
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 days ago
I could never divide....
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months 3 weeks ago
Metaphysics has as the proper object...

Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 1 week ago
Verily I say unto you, All...

Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

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Mark 3:28-29 (KJV)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
3 months 2 days ago
There is no reason whatever to...

There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 3 weeks ago
We are no nearer heaven on...

We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.

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Ch. 12
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 3 weeks ago
Every man is, no doubt, by...

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

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Section II, Chap. II.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 4 days ago
Men can be provincial in time,...

Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place.

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Preface, p. ix
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
3 months 3 weeks ago
All abstract sciences are nothing but...

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

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Dr. Théophile de Bordeu, in "Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
What surrounds us we endure better...

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
4 months 3 weeks ago
Music is a hidden….

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

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Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.
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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
3 months 2 weeks ago
The principles of logic and mathematics...

The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

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p. 77.
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 2 weeks ago
In a world, man must create...

In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 2 days ago
Once again, I experienced that overwhelming...

Once again, I experienced that overwhelming joy in the universe that I had felt in London outside the V and A. But this time, my consciousness of the world seemed larger, more complex. It was the mystic's sensation of oneness, of everything blending into everything else. Everything I looked at reminded me of something else, which also became present to my consciousness, as if I were simultaneously seeing a million worlds and smelling a million scents and hearing a million sounds-- not mixed up, but each separate and clear. I was overwhelmed with a sense of my smallness in the face of this vast, beautiful, objective universe, this universe whose chief miracle is that it exists, as well as myself. It is no dream, but a great garden in which life is trying to obtain a foothold. I experienced a desire to burst into tears of gratitude; then I controlled it, and the feeling subsided into a calm sense of immense, infinite beauty.

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pp. 237-238
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 months 2 weeks ago
In deduction the mind is under...

In deduction the mind is under the dominion of a habit or association by virtue of which a general idea suggests in each case a corresponding reaction. This is the way the hind legs of a frog separated from the rest of the body, reason, when you pinch them. It is the lowest form of psychical manifestation.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
3 months 1 day ago
Man is born as a freak...

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. He has to have a frame of orientation which permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger which is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind.

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The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968), p. 61
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 3 weeks ago
This I think is sufficiently evident,...

This I think is sufficiently evident, that children generally hate to be idle. All the care then is, that their busy humour should be constantly employ'd in something of use to them; which, if you will attain, you must make what you would have them do a recreation to them, and not a business.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
4 months 2 weeks ago
Who is to determine what the...

Who is to determine what the perfect is? It could only be those who are themselves perfect and who therefore know what it means. Here yawns the abyss of that circularity in which the whole of human Dasein moves. What health is, only the healthy can say. Yet healthfulness is measured according to the essential starting point of health. What truth is, only one who is truthful can discern; but the one who is truthful is determined according to the essential starting point of truth.

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p. 127
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie
1 month 2 weeks ago
The good seed that nature plants...

The good seed that nature plants in us is so slight and so slippery that it cannot withstand the least harm from wrong nourishment.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 2 weeks ago
To think that because those who...

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

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Ch. I: To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice (p. 155)
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Emperor Julian
Emperor Julian
4 weeks ago
Who then is the Mother of...

Who then is the Mother of the Gods? She is the Source of the Intelligible and Creative Powers, which direct the visible ones; she that gave birth to and copulated with the mighty Jupiter: she that exists as a great goddess next to the Great One, and in union with the Great Creator; she that is dispenser of all life; cause of all birth; most easily accomplishing all that is made; generating without passion; creating all that exists in concert with the Father; herself a virgin, without mother, sharing the throne of Jupiter, the mother in very truth of all the gods; for by receiving within herself the causes of all the intelligible deities that be above the world, she became the source to things the objects of intellect.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
3 months 3 weeks ago
In the final, positive state, the...

In the final, positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Abolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the cause of phenomenon, and applies itself to the tudy of their laws, - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of the facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts, the number of which continually diminishes with the progress of science.

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Will Durant
Will Durant
1 month 1 week ago
Power dements even more than it...

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

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Ch. IV : The Convention: September 21, 1792 - October 26, 1795, Part V : The Reign of Terror: September 17, 1793 - July 28, 1794, § 4 : The Revolution Eats Its Children
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 3 weeks ago
Saying is one thing, doing another....

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Book II, Ch. 31. Of Anger
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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 month 4 weeks ago
So what is the alternative to...

So what is the alternative to traditional anthropocentric ethics? Antispeciesism is not the claim that "All Animals Are Equal", or that all species are of equal value, or that a human or a pig is equivalent to a mosquito. Rather the antispeciesist claims that, other things being equal, equally strong interests should count equally. Experiences that are subjectively negative or positive in hedonic tone to the same degree must count for the same.

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"The Antispeciesist Revolution", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Jul. 2013
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1 week 2 days ago
Everything should be made simple...

Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
3 months 2 weeks ago
I see not the shadow of...

I see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their [the sexes'] virtues should differ in respect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard? I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain that they must have the same simple direction as that there is a God.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 1 week ago
The Son of man shall be...

The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.

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17:22-23 (KJV)
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
4 months 4 weeks ago
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont...

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
4 months 3 weeks ago
As regards the objection that possibles...

As regards the objection that possibles are independent of the decrees of God I grant it of actual decrees (although the Cartesians do not at all agree to this), but I maintain that the possible individual concepts involve certain possible free decrees; for example, if this world was only possible, the individual concept of a particular body in this world would involve certain movements as possible, it would also involve the laws of motion, which are the free decrees of God; but these, also, only as possibilities. Because, as there are an infinity of possible worlds, there are also an infinity of laws, certain ones appropriate to one; others, to another, and each possible individual of any world involves in its concept the laws of its world.

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(May, 1686) as quoted in George R. Montgomery, Tr., "Correspondence between Leibniz and Arnauld," Leibniz: Discourse on metaphysics; correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology (1916) VIII, p. 108
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
5 months 5 days ago
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension...

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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As quoted in The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations: with English translations‎ (1990) by Norbert Guterman, p. 375
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
4 months 2 weeks ago
From Plato's Republic... the primary danger...

From Plato's Republic... the primary danger of liberty and free speech in a democracy is what results when everyone has his own... style of life... For then there can be no common logos, no possible unity, for the city.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
3 months 2 weeks ago
In the same way as philosophy...

In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics.

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Philosophy of Life, Lecture 1
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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 months 1 week ago
The ground of democratic ideas and...

The ground of democratic ideas and practices is faith in the potentialities of individuals, faith in the capacity for positive developments if proper conditions are provided. The weakness of the philosophy originally advanced to justify the democratic movement was that it took individuality to be something given ready-made, that is, in abstraction from time, instead of as a power to develop.

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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
1 month 2 weeks ago
The self-evident truth which makes men...

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolate persons.

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Ch. XVII: "On This Rock", §2, p. 375
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
2 weeks 5 days ago
Architecture worth great attention. As we...

Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our houses. Besides we build of such perishable materials that one half of our houses must be rebuilt in every space of 20 years. So that in that term, houses are to be built for three fourths of our inhabitants. It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much.

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Hints to Americans travelling in Europe, letter to John Rutledge, Jr. (June 19, 1788); in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd (1956), vol. 13, p. 269
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
2 weeks 5 days ago
Certainly no nation ever before abandoned...

Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circulating medium for the nation - to inflate, by deluges of paper, the nominal prices of property, and then to buy up that property at 1s. in the pound, having first withdrawn the floating medium which might endanger a competition in purchase. Yet this is what has been done, and will be done, unless stayed by the protecting hand of the legislature. The evil has been produced by the error of their sanction of this ruinous machinery of banks; and justice, wisdom, duty, all require that they should interpose and arrest it before the schemes of plunder and spoliation desolate the country.

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Letter to William C. Rives (1819) ME 15:232
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Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski
1 month 1 week ago
Communism was not the crazy fantasy...

Communism was not the crazy fantasy of a few fanatics, nor the result of human stupidity and baseness; it was a real, very real part of the history of the twentieth century, and we cannot understand this history of ours without understanding communism. We cannot get rid of this specter by saying it was just "human stupidity," or "human corruptibility." The specter is stronger than the spells we cast on it. It might come back to life.

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Introduction to My Correct Views on Everything
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 2 weeks ago
Pornography and violence are by-products of...

Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change.

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Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 months 2 weeks ago
Feeling which has not yet emerged...

Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 1 week ago
Our "Theories of Taste," as they...

Our "Theories of Taste," as they are called, wherein the deep, infinite, unspeakable Love of Wisdom and Beauty, which dwells in all men, is "explained," made mechanically visible, from "Association" and the like, ...

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
3 months 2 weeks ago
Spirit: Do not be deceived by...

Spirit: Do not be deceived by sophists and half philosophers; things do not appear to thee by means of any representatives. Of the thing that exists, and that can exist, thou art conscious immediately ; thou, thyself, art that of which thou art conscious. By a fundamental law of thy being thou art thus presented to thyself, and thrown out of thyself.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 months 2 weeks ago
It is because the method of...

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 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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Epictetus
Epictetus
5 months 4 days ago
Remember that it is not he...

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
2 weeks 2 days ago
The universal intelligence puts itself in...

The universal intelligence puts itself in motion for every separate effect... or it puts itself in motion once, and everything else comes by way of a sequence in a manner; or individual elements are the origin of all things. In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou be governed by it.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 2 weeks ago
How can I, who was not...

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 1 week ago
It is always a genial laughter....

It is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 2 weeks ago
Lincoln's place in the history of...

Lincoln's place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!

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