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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1 month 2 weeks ago
Jews hate the name of Christ...

Jews hate the name of Christ and have a secret and innate rancor against the people among whom they live.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Animals only follow their natural instincts;...

Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philosophy, is at the mercy of impulses that are worse than those of a wild beast. There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
1 month 2 weeks ago
If it is my interest to...

If it is my interest to have a farm, it is my interest to take it away from my neighbour; if it is my interest to have a cloak, it is my interest also to steal it from a bath. This is the source of wars, seditions, tyrannies, plots.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
3 days ago
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals....

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 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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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 6 days ago
These considerations did not make us...

These considerations did not make us overlook the folly of premature attempts to dispense with the inducements of private interest in social affairs, while no substitute for them has been or can be provided: but we regarded all existing institutions and social arrangements as being (in a phrase I once heard from Austin) "merely provisional," and we welcomed with the greatest pleasure and interest all socialistic experiments by select individuals (such as the Co-operative Societies), which, whether they succeeded or failed, could not but operate as a most useful education of those who took part in them, by cultivating their capacity of acting upon motives pointing directly to the general good, or making them aware of the defects which render them and others incapable of doing so.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
3 days ago
To revolt is a natural tendency...

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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Jesus
Jesus
Just now
I am he that liveth, and...

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
1 month 2 weeks ago
Nothing is ever gotten….

Nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
When I come to my own...

When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
What surrounds us we endure better...

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 days ago
The activity of to-day and the...

The activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
The single harmony produced by all...

The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of "disordered" but of "ordered universe" upon the whole.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
5 days ago
The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies...

The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies ultimately in this alone, that it negates theology through philosophy in order then to negate philosophy through theology. Both the beginning and the end are constituted by theology; philosophy stands in the middle as the negation of the first positedness, but the negation of the negation is again theology. At first everything is overthrown, but then everything is reinstated in its old place, as in Descartes. The Hegelian philosophy is the last grand attempt to restore a lost and defunct Christianity through philosophy, and, of course, as is characteristic of the modern era, by identifying the negation of Christianity with Christianity itself.

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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
1 day ago
Personally, people know themselves very poorly....

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 1 week ago
Every parting gives...

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
3 weeks 4 days ago
One day, observing a child drinking...

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 week 5 days ago
The one infinite is perfect, in...

The one infinite is perfect, in simplicity, of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God, universal Nature, occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 1 week ago
At present they [philosophers] seem to...

At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. For what can be imagin'd more tormenting, than to seek with eagerness, what for ever flies us; and seek for it in a place, where 'tis impossible it can ever exist?

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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 1 week ago
I am convinced that everything has...

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
1 month 1 week ago
It is error only, and not...

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
5 days ago
Every pleasure raises the tide of...

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
The wrinkles of a nation are...

The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks ago
It pays to be obvious...
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 2 days ago
"My field," said Goethe, "is time."...

"My field," said Goethe, "is time." That is indeed the absurd speech. What, in fact, is the Absurd Man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him. But he prefers his courage and his reasoning. The first teaches him to live without appeal and to get along with what he has; the second informs him of his limits. Assured of his temporally limited freedom, of his revolt devoid of future, and of his mortal consciousness, he lives out his adventure within the span of his lifetime.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
1 month 2 weeks ago
People almost invariably arrive at their...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 6 days ago
The community has no bribe that...

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 2 days ago
To be happy, we must not...

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 6 days ago
In an age as agitated as...

In an age as agitated as ours, it no longer suffices just to be advertised in the newspaper. To be advertised in this way is the same thing as being consigned to oblivion. If one is to be noticed, once must as least appear on the first page under a hand that points to and, as it were, announces or advertises the advertisement.

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Plato
Plato
2 months 3 days ago
Wonder is the feeling of a...

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Chance seldom interferes with the wise...

Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 1 week ago
It is the highest impertinence and...

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 1 week ago
As in the presence of the...

As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
6 days ago
Whoever does not philosophize for the...

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
The need for novelty is the...

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 4 days ago
Savage - There is only one...

Savage - There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 days ago
The Indian teaching, through its clouds...

The Indian teaching, through its clouds of legends, has yet a simple and grand religion, like a queenly countenance seen through a rich veil. It teaches to speak truth, love others, and to dispose trifles. The East is grand - and makes Europe appear the land of trifles .... all is soul and the soul is Vishnu ... cheerful and noble is the genius of this cosmogony. Hari is always gentle and serene - he translates to heaven the hunter who has accidentally shot him in his human form, he pursues his sport with boors and milkmaids at the cow pens; all his games are benevolent and he enters into flesh to relieve the burdens of the world.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 weeks 3 days ago
We ought so…

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 320

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William Godwin
William Godwin
3 days ago
Ministers become a sort of miniature...

Ministers become a sort of miniature kings in their turn. Though they have the greatest opportunity of observing the impotence and unmeaningness of the character, they envy it. It is their trade perpetually to extol the dignity and importance of the master they serve; and men cannot long anxiously endeavor to convince others of the truth of any proposition without becoming half convinced themselves.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 3 weeks ago
Things have their root and their...

Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

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Jesus
Jesus
Just now
And that servant, which knew his...

And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 5 days ago
That men do not learn very...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
Democracy is the process by which...

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
Passing from quantity to quality of...

Passing from quantity to quality of population, we come to the question of eugenics. We may perhaps assume that, if people grow less superstitious, government will acquire the right to sterilize those who are not considered desirable as parents. This power will be used, at first, to diminish imbecility, a most desirable object. But probably, in time, opposition to the government will be taken to prove imbecility, so that rebels of all kinds will be sterilized. Epileptics, consumptives, dipsomaniacs and so on will gradually be included; in the end, there will be a tendency to include all who fail to pass the usual school examinations. The result will be to increase the average intelligence; in the long run, it may be greatly increased. But probably the effect upon really exceptional intelligence will be bad. Mr. Micawber, who was Dickens's father, would hardly have been regarded as a desirable parent. How many imbeciles ought to outweigh one Dickens I do not profess to know.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 1 week ago
No fixed capital can yield any...

No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
1 month 2 weeks ago
But if one should…

But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
Doutbless, revenge is not always sweet,...

Doutbless, revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim, or else we are tangled in the subtleties of remorse; so vengeance too has its venom, though it comes closer to what we are, to what we feel, to the very law of the self; it is also healthier than magnanimity. The Furies were held to antedate the gods, Zeus included. Vengeance before Divinity! This is the Major intuition of ancient mythology. p. 70.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
To tell the truth, I couldn't...

To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.

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Novalis
Novalis
3 days ago
Sleep is for the inhabitants of...

Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 5 days ago
That which is best about conservatism,...

That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.

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