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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 1 week ago
Hatred and anger are the greatest...

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

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Section II, Chap. III.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 6 days ago
The need of a constantly expanding...

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

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Section 1, paragraph 19
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 6 days ago
You have theories enough concerning the...

You have theories enough concerning the Rights of Men. It may not be amiss to add a small degree of attention to their Nature and disposition.

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Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November 1789), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 46
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 days ago
His business is here, it is...

His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.

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p. 67
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months 1 week ago
To Americans. That some desperate wretches...

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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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 6 days ago
We assert then that nothing has...

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and - if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it - we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 1 day ago
I forsook the company and the...

I forsook the company and the dinner-parties, the port-wine and champagne of the middle-classes, and devoted my leisure-hours almost exclusively to the intercourse with plain working men; I am both glad and proud of having done so. Glad, because thus I was induced to spend many a happy hour in obtaining a knowledge of the realities of life-many an hour, which else would have been wasted in fashionable talk and tiresome etiquette; proud, because thus I got an opportunity of doing justice to an oppressed and calumniated class of men who with all their faults and under all the disadvantages of their situation, yet command the respect of every one but an English money-monger.

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p. 27
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 days ago
On est ce qu'on veut. A...

On est ce qu'on veut. A man is what he wills himself to be.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 days ago
Books ... hold within them the...

Books ... hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 6 days ago
Mathematics takes us still further from...

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 2 days ago
God gave us....
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William James
William James
2 months 5 days ago
A purely disembodied human emotion is...

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

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Ch. 25
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 day ago
As the years pass, the number...

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 days ago
Every one excels in something in...

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

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Maxim 17
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 2 weeks ago
The human understanding is unquiet; it...

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

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Aphorism 48
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
1 month 1 week ago
It was under Catholic Feudalism that...

It was under Catholic Feudalism that they were first united; a union for which their incorporation into the Roman empire had prepared them, and which was finally organized by the incomparable genius of Charlemagne.

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p. 88
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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 1 week ago
The state of nature has a...

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

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Second Treatise of Government, Ch. II, sec. 6
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
Once conform, once do what others...

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 days ago
But when they have realized that...

But when they have realized that it [society] rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors.

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p. 65-6
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 1 week ago
People who originally have no means...

People who originally have no means but are ultimately able to earn a great deal, through whatever talents they may possess, almost always come to think that these are permanent capital and that what they gain through them is interest. Accordingly, they do not put aside part of their earnings to form a permanent capital, but spend their money as fast as they earn it. But they are then often reduced to poverty because their earnings decrease or come to an end after their talent, which was of a transitory nature, is exhausted, as happens, for example, in the case of almost all the fine arts; or because it could be brought to bear only under a particular set of circumstances that has ceased to exist.

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E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 348
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 1 day ago
Someone who knows too much finds...

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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p. 64e
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 week 1 day ago
Disneyland exists in order to hide...

Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 12
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
2 weeks 3 days ago
In one sense, I do believe...

In one sense, I do believe I am "like a man," as Parthe [the writer's sister] says. But how? In having sympathy. ... Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so. ... They cannot state a fact accurately to another, nor can that other attend to it accurately enough for it to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?

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Letter to Madame Mohl
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 days ago
I can be twenty women, one...

I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that's what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!

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Act 3, sc. 4
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 day ago
Two enemies - the same man...

Two enemies - the same man divided.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
Gaiety - a quality of ordinary...

Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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"Diseases"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 day ago
The only subversive mind is the...

The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 6 days ago
Children must be under authority, and...

Children must be under authority, and are themselves aware that they must be, although they like to play a game of rebellion at times. The case of children is unique in the fact that those who have authority over them are sometimes fond of them. Where this is the case, the children do not resent the authority in general, even when they resist it on particular occasions. Education authorities, as opposed to teachers, have not this merit, and do in fact sacrifice the children to what they consider the good of the State by teaching them "patriotism," i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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Ch. 13: Freedom in Society
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 6 days ago
…the prince says…

. ... the prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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Part 3, Chapter 5
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 4 days ago
When I'm bored, my sense of...

When I'm bored, my sense of values goes to sleep. But it's not dead, only asleep. A crisis can wake it up and make the world seem infinitely important and interesting. But what I need to learn is the trick of shaking them awake myself . . . And incidentally, another name for the sense of values is intelligence. A stupid person is a person whose values are narrow.

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p. 57
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months ago
The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make...

The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single haze to see everything constantly. A central point would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known: a perfect eye that nothing would escape and a centre towards which all gazes would be turned.

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Part Three, The Means of Correct Training
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 4 days ago
Subject matters in general do not...

Subject matters in general do not exist. There are no subject matters; no branches of learning-or, rather, of inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 day ago
You see, if you say something...

You see, if you say something positive like the whole of life - all living things - is descended from a single common ancestor which lived about 4,000 million years ago and that we are all cousins, well that is an exceedingly important and true thing to say and that is what I want to say. Somebody who is religious sees that as threatening and so I am represented as attacking religion, and I am forced into responding to their reaction. But you do not have to see my main purpose as attacking religion. Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading. And that is what is so exciting for me.

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Kam Patel (28 April 1995) . "Going the whole hog". Times Higher Education.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 6 days ago
But as to our country and...

But as to our country and our race, as long as the well compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple, shall stand inviolate on the brow of the British Sion-as long as the British Monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the State, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers, as long as this awful structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land-so long as the mounds and dykes of the low, fat, Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France.

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pp. 52-53
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 day ago
Age may have one side, but...

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?

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Crabbed Age and Youth.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
2 weeks 3 days ago
Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves...

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 2 weeks ago
There are hardly any truths upon...

There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 weeks 6 days ago
Whether or no it be for...

Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 1 week ago
Criticism alone can sever the root...

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

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B xxxiv
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 1 week ago
I think that democratic communities have...

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

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Book Two, Chapter I.
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
3 weeks 5 days ago
Man, if he is to remain...

Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. ... We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 1 week ago
All sentiment is right; because sentiment...

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.

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Part I, Essay 23: Of The Standard of Taste
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
In all things success depends on...

In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. If what is to be spoken be previously determined, there will be no stumbling. If affairs be previously determined, there will be no difficulty with them. If one's actions have been previously determined, there will be no sorrow in connection with them. If principles of conduct have been previously determined, the practice of them will be inexhaustible.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
2 months 2 weeks ago
So far as it goes…

So far as it goes, a small thing may give an analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.

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Book II, lines 123-124 (tr. Rouse)
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 weeks 4 days ago
Emptiness simply prevents what is individual...

Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
We can be knowledgeable with other...

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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Book I, Ch. 25
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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 3 weeks ago
Be ruled by time, the wisest...

Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.

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Pericles (Tr. Dryden and Clough)
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 days ago
The live dead-man is dead as...

The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes.

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p. 139
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 5 days ago
Limiting the liberty of each by...

Limiting the liberty of each by the like liberty of all, excludes a wide range of improper actions, but does not exclude certain other improper ones.

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Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 4
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 1 week ago
We have seen how it is...
We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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