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bell hooks
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As we search as a nation...

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is manifest that there is...

It is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, how large soever, lest it should make it swell or out-compass itself; no, but it is merely the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and some effects of that venom, which is ventosity or swelling. This corrective spice, the mixture whereof maketh knowledge so sovereign, is charity, which the Apostle immediately addeth to the former clause; for so he saith, "Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up".

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Book I
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 3 weeks ago
One has attained to mastery when...
One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
A major task in organizing is...

A major task in organizing is to determine, first, where the knowledge is located that can provide the various kinds of factual premises that decisions require.

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p. 24.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
A state without the means of...

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
2 months 2 weeks ago
All evil results from the non-adaptation...

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

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Part I, Ch. 2 : The Evanescence of Evil, § 1
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 3 weeks ago
China is a much richer country...

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

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Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 221.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 2 weeks ago
At the age of five years...

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

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Vol II: "On the Vanity and Suffering of Life", as translated by R. B. Haldane, and J. Kemp in The World as Will and Idea (1886), p. 389
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months 3 weeks ago
Everyone is forced to be a philosopher

The age of philosophy in the sense again that we are confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation. On the contrary, you cannot find your way around daily life itself without answering certain philosophical questions. It is a unique time when everyone is, in a way, forced to be some kind of philosopher.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 4 days ago
Le prestige, qui constitue la force...

The prestige which constitutes three-fourths of might is first of all made up of that superb indifference which the powerful have for the weak, an indifference so contagious that it is communicated even to those who are its object.

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in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 168
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
I will follow the good side...

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

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Ch. 1
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Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
3 weeks 1 day ago
Some people steal from others, or...

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

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Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, The Entitlement Theory, p. 152
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 weeks ago
God whispers to us in our...

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 3 weeks ago
We will never know if an...

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 1 week ago
The sun will be darkened, and...

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory... I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

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24:29-34 (NIV)
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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
1 month 3 weeks ago
From any vocabulary of ideas we...

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

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Chapter 15, Inductive Logic, p. 139.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
When I play with my cat….

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

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Ch. 12 (tr. Donald M. Frame) , tr. David Wills, 2008
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 2 weeks ago
Nothing is so difficult as not...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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p. 34e
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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 week 6 days ago
It's also been attacked from the...

It's also been attacked from the left by people... I teach students at Stanford, and many of them think that liberalism is... the doctrine of their parents' or their grandparents' generation, but it's really not relevant to Gen Z younger people who are impatient for social justice and social change that liberalism is not providing.

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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
2 weeks ago
It is a commonplace of the...

It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and Gibbon, that Empire is from its inception decadent and corrupt.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 3 weeks ago
The advantage of a bad memory...
The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 weeks ago
Humans are amphibians - half spirit...

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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Letter VIII
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
To think is to run after...

To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment.

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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
1 week 5 days ago
Some years ago, as Your Serene...

Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions commonly held among academic philosophers, stirred up against me no small number of professors - as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 3 days ago
The English never abolish anything. They...

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

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Ch. 36, January 19, 1945.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
The more intense a spiritual leader's...

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 3 weeks ago
Like strawberry wives, that laid two...

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 week 2 days ago
"A fair day's wages for a...

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

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Bk. I, ch. 3.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are...

Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Poetry and Imagination
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 1 week ago
Men are never so likely to...

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

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p. 248
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
4 months 1 day ago
I would have written…

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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Provincial Letters: Letter XVI (4 December 1656)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
Considering the optimistic turn taken by...

Considering the optimistic turn taken by world trade AT THIS MOMENT...it is some consolation at least that the revolution has begun in Russia, for I regard the convocation of 'notables' to Petersburg as such a beginning. ... On the Continent revolution is imminent and will, moreover, instantly assume a socialist character.

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Letter to Friedrich Engels (8 October 1858), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856-59 (2010), pp. 346-347
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
3 days ago
Let us greedily enjoy our friends,...

Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 4 weeks ago
But there is only...
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
The universal view melts things into...

The universal view melts things into a blur.

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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
2 months 4 days ago
As an empiricist I continue to...

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries-not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer. For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conception only as cultural posits. The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of experience.

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"Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 2 weeks ago
But if you say: "How am...

But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"

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§ 504
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
3 months 3 weeks ago
To love is to be delighted...

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

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The Elements of True Piety (c. 1677), The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
I foresee the day when we...

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 5 days ago
We must needs believe with faith,...

We must needs believe with faith, whatever counsels reason may give us, that in the depths of our own bodies, in animals, in plants, in rocks, in everything that lives, in all the Universe, there is a spirit that strives to know itself, to acquire consciousness of itself, to be itself - for to be oneself is to know oneself - to be pure spirit; and since it can only achieve this by means of the body, by means of matter, it creates and makes use of matter at the same time that it remains a prisoner of it.

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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
2 months 1 week ago
The eyes see only what the...

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin‎ (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 4 weeks ago
There are two ways of extending...

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

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B 22
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 2 weeks ago
Such is the content of the...

Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

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Eye Appeal, p. 79-80
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John Searle
John Searle
1 month 3 weeks ago
You need to know enough of...

You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
2 months 2 weeks ago
Government must be a transparent garment...

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

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Act I.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
To be is to be cornered.

To be is to be cornered.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 4 days ago
Celui qui ignore à quel point...

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate.

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p. 192
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 2 weeks ago
But as more arts were invented,...

But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to recreation, the inventors of the latter were naturally always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility. ... This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 1 week ago
Between the fine point of the...

Between the fine point of the brush and the steely gaze, the scene is about to yield up its volume.

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Las Meninas
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 2 weeks ago
To reckon on anything at all,...

To reckon on anything at all, here or elsewhere, is to afford proofs that we are still burdened with chains. The reprobate aspires to paradise; this aspiration disparages, compromises him. To be free is to rid yourself forever of the notion of reward, it is to expect nothing of men or gods, it is to renounce not only this world and all worlds but salvation itself-it is to destroy even the notion of it, that chain among chains.

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