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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
4 days ago
If you are in a strait,...

If you are in a strait, a very good indication as to choice-perhaps the best you could get-is a book you have a great curiosity about. You are then in the readiest and best of all possible conditions to improve by that book.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 2 weeks ago
Beauty is no quality in things...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.

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Part I, Essay 23: Of The Standard of Taste
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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 1 week ago
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by...

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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As quoted in Quote, Unquote‎ (1989) by Jonathan Williams, p. 136
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William James
William James
3 months 1 week ago
A paradise of inward tranquility seems...

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

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Lectures XI, XII, and XIII, "Saintliness"
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
Who is going to educate the...

Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?

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Chapter 12 (p. 112)
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
2 months 6 days ago
The Value or WORTH of a...

The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power...

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The First Part, Chapter 10, p. 42
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
My argument against God was that...

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

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Book II, Chapter 1, "The Rival Conceptions of God"
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 months 4 days ago
Human beings are social animals. We...

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

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Chapter 1, The Origins Of Altruism, p. 3
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie
1 week 1 day ago
There is in our souls some...

There is in our souls some native seed of reason, which, if nourished by good counsel and training, flowers into virtue, but which, on the other hand, if unable to resist the vices surrounding it, is stifled and blighted.

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Part 2
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 2 weeks ago
The truth can wait...

The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.

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Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature), 1836;
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
Boredom is connected naturally with time,...

Boredom is connected naturally with time, with the horror of time, with the experience and the consciousness of time. Those who are not aware of time do not become bored. Basically life is only possible if one is not aware of time. If one should happen to want to experience consciously one of those moments that pass, one would be lost; life would become unbearable.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 4 weeks ago
We should have with each person...

We should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of the universe.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months ago
I have told you that... we...

I have told you that... we know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
When any work seems to have...

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 1 week ago
The preceding merely defines a way...

The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
We are all deep in a...

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle. variant: The fact that living is an extraordinary thing seeing things as they are, That this life is theoretically completely worthless, Seems extraordinary compared to the actual level, This means Live despite all adversities, Every moment becomes a kind of heroism

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 3 weeks ago
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing...

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
The power of God is the...

The power of God is the worship He inspires. The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

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Ch. 12: "Religion and Science", pp. 268-269
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 3 weeks ago
"Why do you not say how...

"Why do you not say how things will be operated under Anarchism?" is a question I have had to meet thousands of times. Because I believe that Anarchism can not consistently impose an iron-clad program or method on the future. The things every new generation has to fight, and which it can least overcome, are the burdens of the past, which holds us all as in a net. Anarchism, at least as I understand it, leaves posterity free to develop its own particular systems, in harmony with its needs. Our most vivid imagination can not foresee the potentialities of a race set free from external restraints. How, then, can any one assume to map out a line of conduct for those to come? We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 3 weeks ago
Self-expression is impossible in relation with...

Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting - are achieved by men who are supremely alone.

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Chapter Eight, The Outsider as a Visionary
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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
2 months 3 days ago
Antiquity believed that the forces of...

Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.

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L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 94
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
If we accept values as given...

If we accept values as given and consistent, if we postulate an objective description of the world as it really is, and if we assume that the decision maker's computational powers are unlimited, then two important consequences follow. First, we do not need to distinguish between the real world and the decision maker's perception of it: he or she perceives the world as it really is. Second, we can predict the choices that will be made by a rational decision maker entirely from our knowledge of the real world and without a knowledge of the decision maker's perceptions or modes of calculation. (We do, of course, have to know his or her utility function.)

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
The appreciation of the merits of...

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 months 3 weeks ago
I believe that it is possible...

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
Though love repine, and reason chafe,...

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."

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Sacrifice
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
2 months 4 days ago
Even to-day, in spite of some...

Even to-day, in spite of some signs which are making a tiny breach in that sturdy faith, even to-day, there are few men who doubt that motorcars will in five years' time be more comfortable and cheaper than to-day. They believe in this as they believe that the sun will rise in the morning. The metaphor is an exact one. For, in fact, the common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.... These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child. Chap.

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VI: The Dissection Of The Mass-Man Begins
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is...

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

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Culture
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 4 weeks ago
The miser deprives himself of his...

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
But perhaps I lack the gift....

But perhaps I lack the gift. I see I've described her as being like a sword. That's true as far as it goes. But utterly inadequate by itself, and misleading. I ought to have said 'But also like a garden. Like a nest of gardens, wall within wall, hedge within hedge, more secret, more full of fragrant and fertile life, the further you explore.' And then, of her, and every created thing I praise, I should say 'in some way, in its unique way, like Him who made it.' Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 2 weeks ago
The evident justice and utility of...

The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.

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Chapter II, Part II, p. 894.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 1 week ago
They showed me their trees, and...

They showed me their trees, and I could not understand the intense love with which they looked at them; it was as though they were talking with creatures like themselves. And perhaps I shall not be mistaken if I say that they conversed with them. Yes, they had found their language, and I am convinced that the trees understood them. They looked at all Nature like that - at the animals who lived in peace with them and did not attack them, but loved them, conquered by their love. They pointed to the stars and told me something about them which I could not understand, but I am convinced that they were somehow in touch with the stars, not only in thought, but by some living channel.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 2 weeks ago
Reason, if consulted with, would advise,...

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 5 days ago
Propaganda...

Propaganda:

Good = God (take a letter)
Evil = Devil (add a letter)

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 6 days ago
Another parable put he forth unto...

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

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13:24-30 (KJV)
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 1 week ago
I believe that...

I believe that political power also exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions that seem to have nothing in common with political power, that have the appearance of being independent, but are not.

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Debate with Noam Chomsky, École Supérieure de Technologie à Eindhoven, November 1971
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
2 months 6 days ago
People talk, indeed, of a "primitive...

People talk, indeed, of a "primitive mentality", as, for example, to-day that of the inferior races, and in days gone by that of humanity in general, at whose door the responsibility for superstition should be laid.

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Chapter II : Static Religion
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
For successful education there must always...

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 2 weeks ago
A common monetary standard will be...

A common monetary standard will be established, with the consent of the various governments, by which industrial transactions will be greatly facilitated. Three spheres made respectively of gold, silver, and platinum, and each weighing fifty grammes, would differ sufficiently in value for the purpose. The sphere should have a small flattened base, and on the great circle parallel to it the Positivist motto would be inscribed. At the pole would be the image of the immortal Charlemagne, the founder of the Western Republic, and round the image his name would be engraved, in its Latin form, Carolus; that name, respected as it is by all nations of Europe alike, would be the common appellation of the universal monetary standard.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 4 weeks ago
When I read the catechism of...

When I read the catechism of the Council of Trent, it seems as though I had nothing in common with the religion there set forth.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
We regret not having the courage...

We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one - any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 6 days ago
Nostalgia, more than.....
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 1 week ago
My point is not that everything...

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is danger­ous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apa­thy but to a hyper- and pessimistic activism. I think that the ethico-political choice we have to make every day is to determine which is the main danger. "

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On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress." Afterword, in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 2 weeks ago
We are all instruments endowed with...

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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"Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot"
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
The indispensible is not necessarily the...

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

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Chapter 6 (p. 48)
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 1 week ago
Confidence is the only bond of...

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

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Maxim 34
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 2 weeks ago
Divinity reveals herself in all things......

Divinity reveals herself in all things... everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 1 week ago
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them....

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

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Maxim 872
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
God is what survives the evidence...

God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 2 weeks ago
A person can perhaps succeed in...

A person can perhaps succeed in hiding his sins from the world, he can perhaps be foolishly happy that he succeeds, or yet, a little more honest, admit that it is a deplorable weakness and cowardliness that he does not have the courage to become open-but a person cannot hide his sins from himself.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 4 days ago
Even at the outset, the total...

Even at the outset, the total and massive quality has its uniqueness; even when vague and undefined, it is just that which it is and not anything else. If the perception continues, discrimination inevitably sets in. Attention must move, and as it moves, parts, members, emerge from the background. And if attention moves in a unified direction instead of wandering, it is controlled by the pervading qualitative unity; attention is controlled by it because it operates within it.

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