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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 2 weeks ago
I have lived and slept in...

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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As quoted in Parted Lips : Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages (2002) by Simone Rich
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
There is no such thing as...

There is no such thing as data-driven thinking.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Our chief want in life, is...

Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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Considerations by the Way
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 4 days ago
In early youth, as we contemplate...

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

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"On the Sufferings of the World"
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
It is terrible to see how...

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction ... in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.

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How to make our ideas clear, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 1 week ago
His capital is continually going from...

His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.

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Chapter I, p. 305.
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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 week 5 days ago
[B]oth natural selection and the historical...

[B]oth natural selection and the historical record offer powerful reasons for doubting the trustworthiness of our naive moral intuitions. So the possibility that human civilisation might be founded upon some monstrous evil should be taken seriously - even if the possibility seems transparently absurd at the time.

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The Antispeciesist Revolution, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Jul. 2013
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 day ago
Ten years on the moon could...

Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.

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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
1 month 3 weeks ago
I have always thought that clarity...

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

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p. 19
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 4 weeks ago
Your questions refer to words; so...

Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

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§ 120
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
2 months 3 weeks ago
Perdiccas threatened to put him to...

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 44
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 4 weeks ago
Nietzsche ... does not shy from...

Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.

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p. 50
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 week ago
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to...

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

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In Luther, Hartmann Grisar, 1915, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, vol. 4, p. 126,
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William Godwin
William Godwin
2 months 1 day ago
Ministers and favorites are a sort...

Ministers and favorites are a sort of people who have a state prisoner in their custody, the whole management of whose understanding and actions they can easily engross.

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Book V, Ch. 5
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Thou animated torrid-zone. To the Humble...

Thou animated torrid-zone.

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To the Humble Bee, st. 1
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 weeks ago
The feeling of being ten thousand...

The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months ago
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking,...

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

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p 48
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 1 week ago
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that...

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
1 month 1 week ago
When land and its tillage are...

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

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Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 103.
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 5 days ago
There is no virtue they should...

There is no virtue they should be excited to, nor fault they should be kept from, which I do not think they may be convinced of; but it must be by such reasons as their age and understandings are capable of, and those propos'd always in very few and plain words.

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Sec. 81
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
Historical time knows no lasting present.

Historical time knows no lasting present.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 5 days ago
As to the having and possessing...

As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.

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Sec. 110
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
3 weeks 5 days ago
Schopenhauer argues that the empirical world...

Schopenhauer argues that the empirical world exists only as a representation: 'every object, whatever its origin, is, as object, already conditioned by the subject, and thus is essentially only the subject's representation.' A representation is a subjective state that has been ordered according to space, time and causality - the primary forms of sensibility and understanding. So long as we turn our thoughts towards the natural world, and search for the thing-in-itself behind the representation is futile. Every argument and every experience leads only to the same end: the system of representations, standing like a veil between the subject and the thing-in-itself. No scientific investigation can penetrate the veil; and yet it is only a veil, Schopenhauer affirms, a tissue of illusions which we can, if we choose, penetrate by other means. The way to penetrate the veil was stumbled upon by Kant.

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A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1981; 2nd ed. 1995), p. 177
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
I find that the best goodness...

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

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Ch. 20
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is as if thinking itself...

It is as if thinking itself had been reduced to the level of industrial processes, subjected to a close schedule-in short, made part and parcel of production.

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p. 21.
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
4 weeks 1 day ago
Ignorance, to a scientist, is an...

Ignorance, to a scientist, is an itch that begs to be pleasurably scratched. Ignorance, if you are a theologian, is something to be washed away by shamelessly making something up.

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The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
The next thing you can learn...

The next thing you can learn from the woman who was a sinner, something she herself understood, is that with regard to finding forgiveness she is able to do nothing at all.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks ago
Christian Kings may erre in deducing...

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

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The Third Part, Chapter 43, p. 330
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
I have no doubt that the...

I have no doubt that the present Prime Minister, for instance, is a most sincere Christian, but I should not advise any of you to go and smite him on one cheek. I think you might find that he thought this text was intended in a figurative sense.

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"The Character of Christ"
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 6 days ago
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright...

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

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Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 2 weeks ago
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad,...

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad, the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

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p. 55
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
Wherever one finds oneself inclined to...

Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

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The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and Action, 1902-1914, ed. Richard A. Rempel, Andrew Brink and Margaret Moran (Routledge, 1993
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 day ago
The "message" of any medium or...

The "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs.

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(p. 8)
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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
1 month 2 weeks ago
I believe that the fundamental alternative...

I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 3 weeks ago
Democracy means the belief that humanistic...

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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Democracy and Human Nature, Freedom and Culture
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
To stand on one leg and...

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
2 months 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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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 2 weeks 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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(20).
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 1 week ago
The very elements themselves, though repugnant...

The very elements themselves, though repugnant in their nature, yet, by a happy equilibrium, preserve eternal peace; and amid the discordancy of their constituent principles, cherish, by a friendly intercourse and coalition, an uninterrupted concord.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months ago
In order to cease being a...

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 3 days ago
Many Catholic mystics have affirmed that,...

Many Catholic mystics have affirmed that, at a certain stage of that contemplative prayer in which, according to the most authoritative theologians, the life of Christian perfection ultimately consists, it is necessary to put aside all thought of the Incarnation as distracting from the higher knowledge of that which has been incarnated. From this fact have arisen misunderstandings in plenty and a number of intellectual difficulties.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Any one thing in the creation...

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

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Book I, ch. 16,7.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 days ago
No one has yet added up...

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

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p. 81
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 months 3 weeks ago
The distance between oneself and other...

The distance between oneself and other persons and other species can fall anywhere on a continuum. Even for other persons the understanding of what it is like to be them is only partial, and when one moves to species very different from oneself, a lesser degree of partial understanding may still be available. The imagination is remarkably flexible. My point, however, is not that we cannot know what it is like to be a bat. I am not raising that epistemological problem. My point is rather that even to form a conception of what it is like to be a bat and a fortiori to know what it is like to be a bat, one must take up the bat's point of view.

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p. 172, note 8.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we...

Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 4 days ago
Wit is cultured insolence.

Wit is cultured insolence.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Blessed are the poor in spirit,...

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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5:1 12 (NIV) Often referred to as "The Beatitudes" this is the start of "The Sermon on the Mount".
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 1 week ago
There is no more...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
I had better never see a...

I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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par. 15
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks ago
But yet they that have no...

But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

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The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21
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