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Horace
3 months 3 weeks ago
Life's short span….

Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.

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Book I, ode iv, line 15
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
3 months 1 week ago
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper...

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.

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IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 1 day ago
Tolerance - the function of an...

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 1 week ago
He that uses his words loosely...

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

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Book III, Ch. 10, sec. 31
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 4 weeks ago
Do not judge according to appearance,...

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

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(John 7:24) (NASB) Variant translation: Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. (NIV)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 6 days ago
Freedom of opinion can only exist...

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...

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A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 443
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 month 3 weeks ago
Science seems to me to teach...

Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 1 week ago
The way of the world is...

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 months 6 days ago
"You're a gentleman," they used to...

"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."

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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
1 month 4 weeks ago
The book of the world, so...

The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the "learned," who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.

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p. 15
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 3 weeks ago
When there is genuine artistry in...

When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist immediately as feelings having qualitative color.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
2 months 2 weeks ago
The world you perceive is drastically...

The world you perceive is drastically simplified model of the real world.

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p. xxvi.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 5 days ago
Whatever limits us we call Fate....

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

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Fate
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 6 days ago
An increase in the productivity of...

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

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Notebook IV, The Chapter on Capital, p. 308.
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 1 week ago
The great end of all human...

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

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Part I, Essay 16: The Stoic
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John Gray
John Gray
1 month 1 week ago
In thinking of history in this...

In thinking of history in this [progressive & eschatological] way Islam shares common ground with Christianity and with the secular creeds of the modern West. It is misleading to represent Islam and 'the West' as forming civilisations that have nothing in common. Christianity and Islam are integral parts of western monotheism, and as such they share a view of history that marks them off from the rest of the world. Both are militant faiths that seek to convert all humankind. Other religions have been implicated in twentieth-century violence-the state cult of Shintō in Japan during the militarist period and Hindu nationalism in contemporary India, for example. But only Christianity and Islam have engendered movements that are committed to the systematic use of force to achieve universal goals.

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Enlightenment and Terror in the Twentieth Century: Terror and the Western Tradition
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 6 days ago
Our inventions are wont to be...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

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pp. 60-61
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Epictetus
Epictetus
4 months 2 weeks ago
When you close your doors, and...

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

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Book I, ch. 14, 13, 14.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 5 days ago
I trust a good deal to...

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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February 1855
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
2 days ago
Whatever this is that I am,...

Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason, This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. (Staniforth translation) II, 2
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 4 weeks ago
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics...

The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

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p. 64
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Cisero
Cisero
4 months 3 weeks ago
We should never take pleasure in...

We should never take pleasure in causing pain to others, even to those who have wronged us, but rather strive to do good to all.

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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
2 weeks 2 days ago
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence...

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 2 weeks ago
I do not believe that woman...

I do not believe that woman will make politics worse; nor can I believe that she could make it better. If, then, she cannot improve on man's mistakes, why perpetrate the latter?

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 1 week ago
To say that the cross emblazoned...

To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers, is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.

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Thesis 79
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
2 months 3 weeks ago
Even the most insensitive hit song...

Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store.

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p. 290
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 6 days ago
Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity. Pearls of...

Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 74
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 4 days ago
This is the terrible fix we...

This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again....God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

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Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months 2 weeks ago
Capitalism lacks narrativity.

Capitalism lacks narrativity.

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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
2 months 3 weeks ago
The would-be climber must be able...

The would-be climber must be able to make himself liked ... please his superiors - avoid showing independence except in those matters wherein independence is expected of him by his chiefs... the winners in the race have qualities which disincline them to allow others to be their true selves. Hence the winners snub all those who aim at adequate self-expression, speaking of them as pretentious, eccentric, biased, unpractical, and measuring their achievements by insincere standards.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 1 week ago
When we hear news

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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Letter to Charles-Augustin Ferriol, comte d'Argental, 28 August 1760]]
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 1 day ago
Woe to the book you can...

Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 4 days ago
As if there could be true...

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 1 day ago
I have never taken myself for...

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 6 days ago
No sound ought to be heard...

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

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Will Durant
Will Durant
3 weeks 4 days ago
Most of our literature and social...

Most of our literature and social philosophy after 1850 was the voice of freedom against authority, of the child against the parent, of the pupil against the teacher. Through many years I shared in that individualistic revolt. I do not regret it; it is the function of youth to defend liberty and innovation, of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way. But now that I too am old, I wonder whether the battle I fought was not too completely won. Let us say humbly but publicly that we resent corruption in politics, dishonesty in business, faithlessness in marriage, pornography in literature, coarseness in language, chaos in music, meaninglessness in art.

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"The Second Sexual Revolution", Time magazine,
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
4 months 2 weeks ago
He that gives quickly….

He that gives quickly gives twice.

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Adagia, 1508
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Lucretius
Lucretius
4 months 2 weeks ago
And yet it is hard…

And yet it is hard to believe that anything in nature could stand revealed as solid matter.The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses,like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire; red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam; hard gold is softened and melted down by heat; chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid; heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold;by custom raising the cup, we feel them bothas water is poured in, drop by drop, above.

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Book I, lines 487-496 (Frank O. Copley)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 months 5 days ago
You can take...
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 6 days ago
The tendency has always been strong...

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, having an independent existence of its own; and if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious, too high to be an object of sense. The meaning of all general, and especially of all abstract terms, became in this way enveloped in a mystical base...

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Note to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1829) by James Mill, edited with additional notes by John Stuart Mill, 1869
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
2 weeks 6 days ago
Would you not think him an...

Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much of a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now? It is all the same; you will not be, and you were not. Neither of these periods of time belongs to you.

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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
2 months 1 week ago
If the immutable character of sex...

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Will Durant
Will Durant
3 weeks 4 days ago
Excellence is an art won by...

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'.

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p. 87; the quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 3 weeks ago
But our Don Quixote, the inward,...

But our Don Quixote, the inward, the immortal Don Quixote, conscious of his own comicness, does not believe that his doctrines will triumph in this world, because they are not of it. And it is better that they should not triumph. And if the world wished to make Don Quixote king, he would retire alone to the mountain, fleeing from the king-making crowds, as Christ retired alone to the mountain when, after the miracle of the loaves and fishes, they sought to proclaim him king. He left the title of king for the inscription written over the cross.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 3 weeks ago
All the cases in which means...

All the cases in which means and ends are external to one another are non-esthetic.

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p. 205
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 months 1 day ago
The selfish gene theory is Darwin's...

The selfish gene theory is Darwin's theory, expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness, I should like to think, he would instantly have recognized and delighted in. It is in fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image. Rather than focus on the individual organism, it takes a gene's eye view of nature. It is a different way of seeing, not a different theory.

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Preface to Second Edition
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 weeks 5 days ago
A man perfects himself by work...

A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
5 days ago
The incorporation of a bank and...

The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed by legislation doing so have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.

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Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank., 1791. ME 3:146
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 months 2 days ago
My interests drew me in different...

My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

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p. 72
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 3 weeks ago
Let us rejoice and give thanks....

Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His members.

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(1 Cor. 12:27). p. 415
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