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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
2 weeks 1 day ago
Now civilizations, I believe, come to...

Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.

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Ch. 8: Civilization on Trial
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 4 weeks ago
If the true is what...

If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
I have gathered…

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

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Ch. 12: Of Physiognomy
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month ago
Every process pushed far enough tends...

Every process pushed far enough tends to reverse or flip suddenly. Chiasmus - the reversal to process caused by increasing its speed, scope or size.

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(p. 6)
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 3 days ago
Spontaneous love can reach the point...

Spontaneous love can reach the point of despair, shows that it is in despair, that even when it is happy it loves with the power of despair.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 4 weeks ago
Being is only Being for Dasein...

Being is only Being for Dasein.

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Macquarrie & Robinson translation
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Take heed lest any man deceive...

Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. And the gospel must first be published among all nations. But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

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13:5b-11 (KJV)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant,...

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Beauty
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William James
William James
3 months 2 days ago
This practically amounts to saying that...

This practically amounts to saying that much that it is legitimate to admire in this field need nevertheless not be imitated, and that religious phenomena, like all other human phenomena, are subject to the law of the golden mean. Political reformers accomplish their successive tasks in the history of nations by being blind for the time to other causes. Great schools of art work out the effects which it is their mission to reveal, at the cost of a one-sidedness for which other schools must make amends. We accept a John Howard, a Mazzini, a Botticelli, a Michael Angelo, with a kind of indulgence. We are glad they existed to show us that way, but we are glad there are also other ways of seeing and taking life. So of many of the saints we have looked at. We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
The mind itself, its love [of...

The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.

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(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
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John Gray
John Gray
1 week 2 days ago
Tyranny offers relief from the burden...

Tyranny offers relief from the burden of sanity and a licence to enact forbidden impulses of hatred and violence. By acting on these impulses and releasing them in their subjects tyrants give people a kind of happiness, which as individuals they may be incapable of achieving.

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An Old Chaos: What a Tyrant Can Do For You (p. 57)
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks 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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The Second Part, Chapter 18, p. 93
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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 3 weeks ago
To regiment artists, to make them...

To regiment artists, to make them servants of some particular cause does violence to the very springs of artistic creation. But it does more than that. It betrays the very cause of a better future it would serve, for in its subjugation of the individuality of the artist it annihilates the source of that which is genuinely new. Where the regimentation is successful, it would cause the future to be but a rearrangement of the past.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 3 days ago
That chastity of honour which felt...

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

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Volume iii, p. 332
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months 1 week ago
There is in fact a manly...

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

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Chapter III, Part I
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 weeks ago
The terrifying experience and obsession of...

The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 days ago
Man is a credulous animal, and...

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 3 weeks ago
Justice is what love looks like...

Justice is what love looks like in public.

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Brother West (2009), p. 232
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 weeks 4 days 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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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 6 days ago
The annual labour of every nation...

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.

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Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 1.
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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
1 month 1 week ago
Statistics began as the systematic study...

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

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Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 102.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 day ago
I wrote the books I should...

I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself.

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As quoted in C.S. Lewis (1963), by Roger Lancelyn Green, p. 9
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
3 months 2 weeks ago
Charity, by which God and neighbor...

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

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Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Notwithstanding I have a few things...

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

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Revelation
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
3 months 1 day ago
Science does not rest upon solid...

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories arises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

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Ch. 5 "The Problem of the Empirical Basis", Section 30: Theory and Experiment, p. 94.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months ago
Till society is very differently constituted,...

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavour to settle that power on a Divine right, which will not bear the investigation of reason.

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Ch. 11
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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 1 day ago
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize,...

Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society.

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Chapter III, Section 26, pg. 151
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month ago
The new media are not bridges...

The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature.

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(p. 14)
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1 month 3 weeks ago
Socrates reminds us that it is...

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

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p. 45
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 3 days ago
As there were black swans, though...

As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
4 weeks 1 day ago
I speak as a biologist. There...

I speak as a biologist. There aren't many absolutely clear distinctions in biology. Mostly what we have is a spectrum. But the male-female divide is exceptional in biology. It really is a true binary.

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Interviewed by Judith Woods, as cited in "Richard Dawkins interview: 'I shall continue to use every one of the prohibited words'", The Telegraph
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
A new commandment I give unto...

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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13:34-35 KJV
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 1 week ago
It is proof of a base...

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

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Included as a quotation in The Great Quotations (1977) by George Seldes, p. 35
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 3 weeks ago
In Plato... or Xenophon... we never...

In Plato... or Xenophon... we never see Socrates requiring... examination of conscience or... confession of sins. [A]n account of your life, your bios, is... not to give... the historical events... but... to demonstrate whether you are able to show... a relation between the rational discourse, the logos, you... use, and the way... you live. Socrates is inquiring into the way that logos gives form to a person's style of life... whether there is a harmonic relation between the two... the degree of accord between a person's life and its principle of intelligibility or logos... [and] the true nature of the relation between the logos and bios.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2 weeks 1 day ago
I mean to lead a simple...

I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is ugly to be punishable,...

It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing. Hence the double system of protection that justice has set up between itself and the punishment it imposes.

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pp. 10
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Don't say things. What you are...

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Social Aims; sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month ago
Prose is private drama; poetry is...

Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.

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(p. 275)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 3 days ago
When I found myself regarded as...

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection. Interview with Irwin Ross, September 1957;If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

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Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (2005), p. 385
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 3 days ago
An organised system of machines, to...

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

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Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416.
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 1 week ago
When superstition is allowed to perform...

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

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Ch. 3, as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 3 days ago
The same law that shapes the...

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.

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January 5, 1856
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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 6 days ago
What a noble privilege is it...

What a noble privilege is it of human reason to attain the knowledge of the supreme Being; and, from the visible works of nature, be enabled to infer so sublime a principle as its supreme Creator? But turn the reverse of the medal. Survey most nations and most ages. Examine the religious principles, which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded, that they are any thing but sick men's dreams: Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a being, who dignifies himself with the name of rational.

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Part XV - General corollary
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 3 days ago
The notion that truths external to...

The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, of which the origin is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its own all-sufficient voucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices.

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(pp. 225-226)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 1 week ago
He that I am reading seems...

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

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Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 day ago
We are born helpless. As soon...

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. Introduction

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 5 days ago
To teach him betimes to love...

To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.

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Sec. 139
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 2 weeks ago
Most men and women, by birth...

Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

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As quoted in The Golden Ratio (2002) by Mario Livio
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 2 weeks ago
If it is pleasing to observe...

If it is pleasing to observe in nature her desire to paint God in all his works, in which we see some traces of him because they are his images, how much more just is it to consider in the productions of minds the efforts which they make to imitate the essential truth, even in shunning it, and to remark wherein they attain it and wherein they wander from it, as I have endeavored to do in this study.

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