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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 2 weeks ago
Let all the 'free-will' in the...

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 days ago
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet...

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
To those who inquire as to...

To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics, the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machines, the travelling from place to place, and the victory over foreign nations, whether in war or commerce. ... The reasoning faculty itself is generally conceived, by those who urge its cultivation, as merely a means for the avoidance of pitfalls and a help in the discovery of rules for the guidance of practical life.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 1 week ago
A single part of…

A single part of physics occupies the lives of many men, and often leaves them dying in uncertainty.

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Democritus
Democritus
3 weeks 6 days ago
Repentance for one's evil deeds is...

Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 week 1 day ago
Early and provident fear is the...

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 3 days ago
What has to be accepted, the...

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 days ago
Big industry, freed from the pressure...

Big industry, freed from the pressure of private property, will undergo such an expansion that what we now see will seem as petty in comparison as manufacture seems when put beside the big industry of our own day. This development of industry will make available to society a sufficient mass of products to satisfy the needs of everyone. The same will be true of agriculture, which also suffers from the pressure of private property and is held back by the division of privately owned land into small parcels. Here, existing improvements and scientific procedures will be put into practice, with a resulting leap forward which will assure to society all the products it needs. In this way, such an abundance of goods will be able to satisfy the needs of all its members.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 weeks 5 days ago
Wish not the thing, which thou...

Wish not the thing, which thou mayest not obtain!

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
5 days ago
At the present time a serious,...

At the present time a serious, strong state can have but one sound foundation - military and bureaucratic centralization. Between a monarchy and the most democratic republic there is only one essential difference: in the former, the world of officialdom oppresses and robs the people for the greater profit of the privileged and propertied classes, as well as to line its own pockets, in the name of the monarch; in the latter, it oppresses and robs the people in exactly the same way, for the benefit of the same classes and the same pockets, but in the name of the people's will. In a republic a fictitious people, the "legal nation" supposedly represented by the state, smothers the real, live people. But it will scarcely be any easier on the people if the cudgel with which they are beaten is called the people's cudgel.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
4 days ago
Primitive superstition lies just below the...

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
1 week 5 days 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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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 weeks 5 days ago
It is difficult to walk at...

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

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William James
William James
1 month 1 week ago
Everything which is demanded is by...

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
1 month 1 week ago
He who dares not offend cannot...

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 1 week ago
The softer you find your child...

The softer you find your child is, the more you are to seek occasions, at fit times, thus to harden him. The great art in this is, to begin with what is but very little painful, and to proceed by insensible degrees, when you are playing, and in good humour with him, and speaking well of him: and when you have once got him to think himself made amends for his suffering by the praise is given him for his courage; when he can take pride in giving such marks of his manliness, and can prefer the reputation of being brave and stout, to the avoiding a little pain, or the shrinking under it; you need nor despair in time and by the assistance of his growing reason, to master his timorousness, and mend the weakness of his constitution.

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René Descartes
René Descartes
1 month 2 weeks ago
The entire method consists in the...

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 week 5 days ago
In America, conscription is unknown; men...

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 2 weeks ago
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but...

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.

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Horace
Horace
3 weeks 6 days ago
Nor word for word…

Nor word for word too faithfully translate.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 4 days ago
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write...

Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 1 week ago
Classical political economy nearly touches the...

Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things, without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
Just now
On fact, the whole machinery of...

On fact, the whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices.

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Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
1 week 1 day ago
What has always made the state...

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 6 days ago
Each human reality is at the...

Each human reality is at the same time a direct project to metamorphose its own For-itself into an In-itself-For-itself, a project of the appropriation of the world as a totality of being-in-itself, in the form of a fundamental quality. Every human reality is a passion in that it projects losing itself so as to found being and by the same stroke to constitute the In-itself which escapes contingency by being its own foundation, the Ens causa sui, which religions call God. Thus the passion of man is the reverse of that of Christ, for man loses himself as man in order that God may be born. But the idea of God is contradictory and we lose ourselves in vain.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 6 days ago
What can be said can and...

What can be said can and should always be said more and more simply and clearly.

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Jesus
Jesus
Just now
Elias truly shall first come, and...

Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 days ago
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a...

Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 3 days ago
A religious symbol does not rest...

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
By necessity, by proclivity, and by...

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
4 weeks ago
I will now tell you who...

I will now tell you who are assembled here the wise sayings of Mazda, the praises of Ahura and the hymns of the Good Spirit, the sublime truth which I see rising out of these flames. You shall therefore harken to the Soul of Nature. Contemplate the beams of fire with a most pious mind. Every one, both men and women, ought to-day to choose his creed. Ye offspring of renowned ancestors, awake to agree with us. So preached Zoroaster, the proph of the Parsis, in one of his earliest sermons nearly 3,500 years ago.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 days ago
Love of the absolute engenders a...

Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 1 week ago
The significance of that 'absolute commandment',...

The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself - whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance - is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality - of what is essentially and ultimately true and real - of spirit as the true and essential being.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 1 week ago
Several excuses are always less convincing...

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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Porphyry
Porphyry
3 weeks ago
Every body is in place; but...

Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
The law of causality, I believe,...

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
Just now
The free will, the actual motor...

The free will, the actual motor of reason in society, necessarily creates wrong. The individual must clash with the social order that claims to represent his own will in its objective form. But the wrong and the 'avenging justice' that remedies it not only expresses a 'higher logical necessity,' but also prepare the transition to a higher social form of freedom, the transition from abstract right to morality. For, in committing a wrong, and in accepting punishment for his deed, the individual becomes conscious of the 'infinite subjectivity' of his freedom. He learns that he is free only as a private person.

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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
3 weeks 6 days ago
Plato had defined Man as an...

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
A logical theory may be tested...

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 3 weeks ago
Virtue (or the man of...

Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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William Godwin
William Godwin
5 days ago
The benefit of the governed is...

The benefit of the governed is made to lie on one side and the benefit of the governors on the other.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week ago
Do not be too moral...
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 1 week ago
Most human beings have an almost...

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
3 weeks 6 days ago
Being asked what learning is…..

Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
4 weeks ago
Philosophy is not politics, and we...

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views. 

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 month 3 days ago
We think of beauty as being...

We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 week 1 day ago
Pain and suffering are always inevitable...

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 1 week ago
As the variable capital always stays...

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
1 month 1 week ago
There as here, passions are the...

There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.

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