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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 01:55

God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

I have in this treatise followed the mathematical method, if not with all strictness, at least imitatively, not in order, by a display of profundity, to procure a better reception for it, but because I believe such a system to be quite capable of it, and that perfection may in time be obtained by a cleverer hand, if stimulated by this sketch, mathematical investigators of nature should find it not unimportant to treat the metaphysical portion, which anyway cannot be got rid of, as a special fundamental department of general physics, and to bring it into unison with the mathematical doctrine of motion.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49

Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

The tyrant has arisen, and the king and oligarchy and aristocracy and democracy, because men are not contented with that one perfect ruler, and do not believe that there could ever be any one worthy of such power or willing and able by ruling with virtue and knowledge to dispense justice and equity rightly to all, but that he will harm and kill and injure any one of us whom he chooses on any occasion, since they admit that if such a man as we describe should really arise, he would be welcomed and would continue to dwell among them, directing to their weal as sole ruler a perfectly right form of government. But, as the case now stands, since, as we claim, no king is produced in our states who is, like the ruler of the bees in their hives, by birth pre-eminently fitted from the beginning in body and mind, we are obliged, as it seems, to follow in the track of the perfect and true form of government by coming together and making written laws.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

It is difficult to set forth any of the greater ideas, except by the use of examples; for it would seem that each of us knows everything that he knows as if in a dream and then again, when he is as it were awake, knows nothing of it all.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 19:51

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15

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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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06

The miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. Of that larger script part is already visible, part is still unsolved. In other words, some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do. In that sense, and from our human point of view, some are reminders and others prophecies.

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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 01:55

It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labour and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 18:52

In this life it is necessary that we be on our guard. To begin with we must be constantly aware of the fact that life here below is best described as being a type of continual warfare. This is a fact that Job, that undefeated soldier of vast experience, tells us so plainly. Yet in this matter the great majority of mankind is often deceived, for the world, like some deceitful magician, captivates their minds with seductive blandishments, and as a result most individuals behave as if there had been a cessation of hostilities.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 03:49

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

We are thus led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by " soft " data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 04:56

What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 00:01

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

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Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 01:46

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity.

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Sat, 22 Nov 2025 - 03:30

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 01:37

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19

If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it. Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 04:56

All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments; no it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 04:29

For what is lacking now is not quibbles; nay, the books of the Stoics are full of quibbles.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 01:37

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. (10)

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19

The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
What! the inventors of ancient civilisations, the first makers of tools and tape lines, the first builders of vehicles, ships, and houses, the first observers of the laws of the heavens and the multiplication tables is it contended that they were entirely different from the inventors and observers of our own time, and superior to them? And that the first slow steps forward were of a value which has not been equalled by the discoveries we have made with all our travels and circumnavigations of the earth?
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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 21:04

To Americans. That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

He wanted to assume his entire condition, to carry the world on his shoulders and to become, in defiance of all, what all have made of him.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19

The statesman who should attempt to direct people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

The sensuous may be exceedingly distinct, while intellectual concepts are extremely confused. The former we observe in the prototype of sensuous knowledge geometry; the latter, in the organon of all intellectual concepts, metaphysics. It is evident how much toil the latter is expending to dispel the fogs of confusion darkening the common intellect, though not always with the happy success of the former science.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 04:29

Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events. But since these matters are neglected or not understood by those who read, or, if understood, remain unknown to those who govern, the result is that the same problems always exist in every era.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

Private profit is often hidden under a careful coating of great patriotism.

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