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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Powerful indeed is the empire of...

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

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Maxim 305
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
3 weeks 3 days ago
Wars have never made peace or...

Wars have never made peace or preserved it or fostered its ideals. To have peace you must make peace with your enemy. To make peace only with your friends is to avoid the issue, and to permit a great principle to become absurd. Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

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"A Statement against the War in Vietnam"
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
5 months 3 weeks ago
The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm,...

The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm, but a certain lack of certainty was gathering, and he did not like to experience a lack of certainty. He liked nothing which made him aware of limitations. An Autarch should have no limitations, and on Lingane he had none that natural law did not impose.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
5 months 2 days ago
A theologian is born by living,...

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
3 weeks 3 days ago
History has informed us that bodies...

History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 months 1 week ago
So far from the posterior lobe,...

So far from the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the hippocampus minor, being structures peculiar to and characteristic of man, as they have been over and over again asserted to be, even after the publication of the clearest demonstration of the reverse, it is precisely these structures which are the most marked cerebral characters common to man with the apes. They are among the most distinctly Simian peculiarities which the human organism exhibits.

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Ch.2, p. 119
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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 2 weeks ago
O my Father, if this cup...

O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

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26:42 (KJV)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 2 days ago
The worst of my actions or...

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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Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt
3 weeks 2 days ago
Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises,...

Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises, existed for Donoso Cortés only in that short interim period in which it was possible to answer the question "Christ or Barabbas?" with a proposal to adjourn or appoint a commission of investigation.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months 3 weeks ago
A philosophical attempt to work out...

A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Ninth Thesis
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 4 weeks ago
There is not a negro from...

There is not a negro from the coast of Africa who does not, in this respect, possess a degree of magnanimity which the soul of his sordid master is too often scarce capable of conceiving. Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, so justly expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.

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Chap. II.
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 3 weeks ago
Scientific Method... [is] even less existent...

Scientific Method... [is] even less existent than some other non-existent subjects.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 3 weeks ago
Every true thinker for himself is...

Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch; he is absolute, and recognises nobody above him. His judgments, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorised it. On the other hand, those of vulgar minds, who are swayed by all kinds of current opinions, authorities, and prejudices, are like the people which in silence obey the law and commands.

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"Thinking for Oneself," H. Dirks, trans.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in...

Everyone is mistaken, everyone lives in illusion. At best, we can admit a scale of fictions, a hierarchy of unrealities, giving preference to one rather than to another; but to choose, no, definitely not that...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2 months 1 week ago
I kept looking at the flowers...

I kept looking at the flowers in a vase near me: lavender sweet peas, fragile winged and yet so still, so perfectly poised, apart, and complete. They are self-sufficient, a world in themselves, a whole - perfect. Is that then, perfection? Is what those sweet peas had what I have, occasionally in moments like that? But flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection; I only occasionally, like that moment. For that moment I and the sweet peas had an understanding.

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William James
William James
4 months 3 weeks ago
This life is worth living, we...

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.

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"Is Life Worth Living?"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
When we cannot be delivered from...

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
3 months 4 days ago
It is certainly not a matter...

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

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F154
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 3 weeks ago
We begin again to structure the...

We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth.

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(p. 17)
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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 3 weeks ago
To pray to God….

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Notebooks, c.1735-c.1750
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 months 2 weeks ago
The bourgeoisie is charitable out of...

The bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen."

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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 months 2 weeks ago
There is another significant involution of...

There is another significant involution of time and movement in space. It is constituted not only by directional tendencies-up and down for example-but by mutual approaches and retreatings. Near and far, close and distant, are qualities of pregnant, often tragic, import-that is, as they are experienced, not just stated by measurement of science. They signify loosening and tightening, expanding and contracting, separating and compacting, soaring and drooping, rising and falling; the dispersive, scattering, and the hovering and brooding, unsubstantial lightness and massive blow. Such actions and reaction are the very stuff out if which the objects and events we experience are made.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
As long as I live I...

As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
Eternal vigilance...
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Georges Sorel
Georges Sorel
1 month 4 days ago
And so I am not concerned...

And so I am not concerned to justify the perpetrators of violence but to enquire into the function of the violence of the working classes in contemporary socialism.

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p. 42
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
If I used to ask myself,...

If I used to ask myself, over a coffin, "what good did it do the occupant to be born?" I now put the same question about anyone alive.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
3 months 1 week ago
Government exists but to maintain special...

Government exists but to maintain special privilege and property rights; it coerces man into submission and therefore robs him of dignity, self-respect, and life.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 3 weeks ago
A man can live and be...

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

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Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 3 weeks ago
Government has no other end than...

Government has no other end than the preservation of property.

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Second Treatise of Government, Ch. VII. sec. 94
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
5 months 2 days ago
She is rightly called not only...

She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God.

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Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 11, Vol. 24, 107
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Epictetus
Epictetus
5 months 1 week ago
For human beings, the measure of...

For human beings, the measure of every action is the impression of the senses.

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Book I, ch. 28, 10
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 3 weeks ago
Men love to wonder, and that...

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science. 

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Works and Days;
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 months 1 week ago
Eros, erotic desire, conquers depression. It...

Eros, erotic desire, conquers depression. It delivers us from the inferno of the same to the utopia, indeed utopia, of the wholly other.

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Democritus
Democritus
4 months 2 weeks ago
He who does wrong is more...

He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.

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John Gray
John Gray
2 months 1 day ago
As Malaparte saw it, Naples was...

As Malaparte saw it, Naples was a pagan city with an ancient sense of time. Christianity taught those who were converted to it to think of history as the unfolding of a single plot - a moral drama of sin and redemption. In the ancient world there was no such plot - only a multitude of stories that were forever being repeated. Inhabiting that ancient world, the Neapolitans did not expect any fundamental alteration in human affairs. Not having accepted the Christian story of redemption, they had not been seduced by the myth of progress. Never having believed civilization to be permanent, they were not surprised when it foundered.

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An Old Chaos: Frozen Horses and Deserts of Brick (p. 22)
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 months 3 weeks ago
Serious occupation is labor that has...

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

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Pt. I, sec. 2, ch. 1
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 1 week ago
Philosophy and religion are enemies, and...

Philosophy and religion are enemies, and because they are enemies they have need of one another. There is no religion without some philosophical basis, no philosophy without roots in religion. ... the attacks which are directed against religion from a presumed scientific or philosophical point of view are merely attacks from another but opposing religious point of view.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
4 months 2 weeks ago
Technology is in its essence something...

Technology is in its essence something that human beings cannot master of their own accord.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
4 months 3 weeks ago
How does it become a man...

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
4 months 3 weeks ago
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a...

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

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Chapter 5 (p. 43)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 2 weeks ago
My difficulty is only an -...

My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression.

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Journal entry (8 March 1915) p. 40
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William James
William James
4 months 3 weeks ago
As the brain-changes are continuous, so...

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

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Ch. 9
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 3 weeks ago
Effects are perceived, whereas causes are...

Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order.

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(p. 303)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 2 weeks ago
How important can it be that...

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 3 weeks ago
I am thus one of the...

I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it...

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(p. 43)
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 3 weeks ago
The press is a group confessional...

The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a "point of view."

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(p. 204)
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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 months 2 weeks ago
Form may then be defined as...

Form may then be defined as the operation of forces that carry the experience of an event, object, scene, and situation to its own integral fulfillment.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 months 1 week ago
Enlightenment is an awakening to the...

Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
2 months 1 week ago
The gradual spread of sterility in...

The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms, including humans, from the planet.

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On the terminator gene, from the book "Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply" (2001), p.83
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
3 weeks ago
No form of Nature is inferior...

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

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Meditations. xi. 10.
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