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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 weeks ago
Private property has made us so...

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it - when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., - in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property - labour and conversion into capital. In place of all these physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses - the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 weeks 3 days ago
Every man is rich or poor...

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with which a man's own labour can supply him. The far greater part of them he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command, or which he can afford to purchase. The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 weeks 1 day ago
All philosophical sects…

All philosophical sects have run aground on the reef of moral and physical ill. It only remains for us to confess that God, having acted for the best, had not been able to do better.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
The same man who could not...

The same man who could not find it in his conscience to curb his curiosity into the nuclear studies that might someday kill half of Earth would risk his life to save that of an unimportant fellow man.

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Plato
Plato
1 month 1 week ago
The characters of self-restrained officials are...

The characters of self-restrained officials are exceedingly careful and just and conservative, but they lack keenness and a certain quick and active boldness. The courageous natures, on the other hand, are deficient in justice and caution in comparison with the former, but excel in boldness of action; and unless both these qualities are present it is impossible for a state to be entirely prosperous in public and private matters.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
So true....understanding....
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks ago
Of all evils of war the...

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
I thank thee, O Father, Lord...

I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. 11:25-30 (KJV)

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 week 2 days ago
What is peddled about nowadays as...

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks ago
Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened...

Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. Freud has shown how largely our dreams at night are the pictured fulfilment of our wishes; he has, with an equal measure of truth, said the same of day-dreams; and he might have included the day-dreams which we call beliefs.

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Avicenna
Avicenna
1 month 1 day ago
The knowledge of anything, since all...

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. And because health and sickness and their causes are sometimes manifest, and sometimes hidden and not to be comprehended except by the study of symptoms, we must also study the symptoms of health and disease. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Of these causes there are four kinds: material, efficient, formal, and final.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 week 5 days ago
The French bourgeois doesn't dislike shit,...

The French bourgeois doesn't dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
4 months 2 weeks ago
Everyone is forced to be a philosopher

The age of philosophy in the sense again that we are confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation. On the contrary, you cannot find your way around daily life itself without answering certain philosophical questions. It is a unique time when everyone is, in a way, forced to be some kind of philosopher.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 week 6 days ago
Too busy with the crowded hour...

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 week 5 days ago
Understand me: I wish to be...

Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 weeks ago
[T]he question was, whether, if the...

[T]he question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1 month 1 week ago
Every ideology is contrary to human...

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
1 week 1 day ago
As medium for reaching understanding, speech...

As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
It is my own experience ......

It is my own experience ... that commentators are far more ingenious at finding meaning than authors are at inserting it.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 2 days ago
You could attach prices to ideas....

You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. ... And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 2 days ago
In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer...

In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest-the one who crosses the finish line last.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 week 6 days ago
Obey the voice at eve obeyed...

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 day ago
About Pontus there are some creatures...

About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 week 2 days ago
Everyone is the other, and no...

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 weeks 1 day ago
Hurl your calumnies…

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 week 5 days ago
"I wish I had never been...

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

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Epictetus
Epictetus
4 weeks ago
Two principles we should always have...

Two principles we should always have ready that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 2 days ago
If a person tells me he...

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 weeks 1 day ago
You worry whether the drought will...

You worry whether the drought will end. It is far better that you pray that God may water your mind lest virtue wither away in it. You are greatly concerned with money that is lost or being wasted, or you worry about the advance of old age. I think it much to be desired that you provide first of all for the needs of your soul.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 weeks 2 days ago
Nature, therefore, is subject with absolute...

Nature, therefore, is subject with absolute precision to all the precepts of geometry as to all the properties of space there demonstrated, this being the subjective condition, not hypothetically but intuitively given, of every phenomenon in which nature can ever be revealed to the senses.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 week 5 days ago
Scientific Method... [is] even less existent...

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

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 weeks 1 day ago
"You're a bitter man," said Candide....

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks ago
We are thus led to a...

We are thus led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by " soft " data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 week 1 day ago
Je crois que le pouvoir politique...

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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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 week 5 days ago
At present we are on the...

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 weeks 1 day ago
The society adopts neither rites nor...

The society adopts neither rites nor priesthood, and it will never lose sight of the resolution not to advance any thing as a society inconvenient to any sect or sects, in any time or country, and under any government. It will be seen that it is so much the more easy for the society to keep within this circle, because, that the dogmas of the Theophilanthropists are those upon which all the sects have agreed, that their moral is.that upon which there has never been the least dissent; and that the name they have taken expresses the double end of all the sects, that of leading to the adoration of God and love of man.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 week 1 day ago
In the old system, the body...

In the old system, the body of the condemned man became the king's property, on which the sovereign left his mark and brought down the effects of his power. Now he will be rather the property of society, the object of a collective and useful appropriation.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
1 month 3 days ago
The wealth required by nature is...

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 week 6 days ago
So long as men worship the...

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 weeks ago
Justice is a temporary thing that...

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 weeks 3 days ago
Everything that is possible…

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

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Plato
Plato
1 month 1 week ago
The many do not know...

Zeno: The many do not know that except by this devious passage through all things the mind cannot attain to the truth. Zeno: Most people are not aware that this roundabout progress through all things is the only way in which the mind can attain truth and wisdom.

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Cisero
Cisero
1 month 1 day ago
They are such fools that they...

They are such fools that they seem to expect that, though the Republic is lost, their fish-ponds will be safe.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 weeks ago
A strong memory is commonly coupled...

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 weeks 3 days 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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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks ago
We are speaking on this occasion,...

We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 weeks 3 days ago
Now as we call every thing...

Now as we call every thing custom, which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 weeks 3 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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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 weeks 3 days ago
China is a much richer country...

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
1 week 5 days ago
The concentration camps, by making death...

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

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