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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 weeks 4 days ago
The conscious side of woman corresponds...

The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his "mind." Mind makes up the soul, or better, the "animus" of woman, and just as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions.

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The Secret of the Golden Flower (1931) Commentary by C.G.Jung in CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P. 60
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 4 weeks ago
..Whenever it ceases to be true...

..Whenever it ceases to be true that mankind, as a rule, prefer themselves to others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment Communism is not only practicable, but the only defensible form of society...

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 4 weeks ago
The heart is everywhere, and each...

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

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Horace
Horace
1 month 2 weeks ago
He is not poor…

He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

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Book I, epistle xii, line 4
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
"I am like a broken puppet...

"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks ago
...whoever is not against us is...

...whoever is not against us is for us.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 week 4 days ago
The custom of procuring abortions has...

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

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Mother Earth
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
Isn't history ultimately the result of...

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 4 weeks ago
I have been quoted as saying...

I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. I think, there is a restlessness in our people, which argues want of character. All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe; - perhaps, because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest. An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe." Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nonsense. You are a military man...

Nonsense. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 1 day ago
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind...
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself, in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms." Variant translation: The constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is more incomprehensible than how an honest and pure urge for truth could make its appearance among men.
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
If you believe what you like...

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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Earliest attribution found in Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations (1995) by George Sweeting. Online sources always attribute the quote to Augustine, but never specify in which of his works it is to be found.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 1 week ago
States as great engines move slowly....

States as great engines move slowly.

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Book II
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4 weeks 1 day ago
If you were to destroy in...

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.

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Book II, ch. 6 (trans. Constance Garnett) Pyotr Miusov, summarizing an argument made by Ivan at a social gathering
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
To conceive a thought - just...

To conceive a thought - just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 weeks 1 day ago
We never know, believe me, when...

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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Essays and Soliloquies
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 2 days ago
In this consists the difference between...

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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Chap. VI.
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William James
William James
1 month 4 weeks ago
Now in all of us, however...

Now in all of us, however constituted, but to a degree the greater in proportion as we are intense and sensitive and subject to diversified temptations, and to the greatest possible degree if we are decidedly psychopathic, does the normal evolution of character chiefly consist in the straightening out and unifying of the inner self. The higher and the lower feelings, the useful and the erring impulses, begin by being a comparative chaos within us - they must end by forming a stable system of functions in right subordination. Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle.

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Lecture VIII, "The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification"
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
The reaction against your own thought...

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. - The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
If death is as horrible as...

If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 weeks 4 days ago
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the...

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
Karsky: I met your father last...

Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?

Hugo: No. 

Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.

Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

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Act 4, sc. 4
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 weeks 3 days ago
The introduction of free competition is...

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society. Free competition is necessary for the establishment of big industry, because it is the only condition of society in which big industry can make its way.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 weeks 4 days ago
There is rarely a creative man...

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 4 weeks ago
It might be plausibly maintained, that...

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

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J. S. Mill, Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical, Volume 2, H. Holt, 1864, p. 11.
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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
4 weeks 1 day ago
Where there is…

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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"Selected Ideas (1799-1800)", Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #101
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 week 4 days ago
I have said that, in a...

I have said that, in a sense, the parasites were a 'shadow' of man's cowardice and passivity. Their strength could increase in an atmosphere of defeat and panic, for it fed on human fear. In that case, the best way to combat them was to change the atmosphere to one of strength and purpose.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 weeks 1 day ago
I must avert here once again...

I must avert here once again to my view of the opposition that exists between individuality and personality, notwithstanding the fact that the one demands the other. Individuality is, if I may so express it, the container or thing which contains, personality the content or thing contained, or I might say that my personality is in a certain sense my comprehension, that which I comprehend or embrace within myself - which is in a certain way the whole Universe - and that my individuality is my extension; the one my infinite, the other my finite.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 week 4 days ago
Logos is powerless without the force...

Logos is powerless without the force of eros.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
The Communist Party has one objective:...

The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

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Hugo, Act 5, sc. 3
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 weeks 3 days ago
The need for novelty is the...

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

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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
3 weeks ago
Toute notre civilisation est aphrodisiaque Sex-appeal...

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

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Chapter IV
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 4 weeks ago
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity....

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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Those Barren Leaves, 1925
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months ago
Let us maintain inviolably equality in...

Let us maintain inviolably equality in the sacred right of suffrage: public security can never have a basis more solid.

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Author's Inscription: French Edition
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 weeks ago
For man to become successful, for...

For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 4 weeks ago
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness...

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

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Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 192
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 1 week ago
You will know that wretched men...

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles. Such is the fate that harms their minds; like pebbles they are tossed about from one thing to another with cares unceasing. For the dread companion Strife harms them unawares, whom one must not walk behind, but withdraw from and flee.

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As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
4 weeks ago
The fact disclosed by a survey...

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have usually been wrong, must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

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Pt. I, The Unknowable; Ch. I, Religion and Science
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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks ago
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye...

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4 weeks 1 day ago
I am sorry I can say...

I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead ofnearer to it - at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
1 month 1 week ago
Hear gladly!

Hear gladly!

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 5 days ago
When they have...
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 4 weeks ago
Thee might observe incidentally that if...

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child - this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

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Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894); published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884-1914)
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 weeks 1 day ago
You have the representatives of that...

You have the representatives of that [Christian] religion which says that their God is love, that the very vital spirit of their institution is charity,-a religion which so much hates oppression, that, when the God whom we adore appeared in human form, He did not appear in a form of greatness and majesty, but in sympathy with the lowest of the people, and thereby made it a firm and ruling principle that their welfare was the object of all government, since the Person who was the Master of Nature chose to appear Himself in a subordinate situation. These are the considerations which influence them, which animate them, and will animate them, against all oppression,-knowing that He who is called first among them, and first among us all, both of the flock that is fed and of those who feed it, made Himself "the servant of all."

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Speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings (19 February 1788), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 144
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 week 4 days ago
For Jung, the 'psychic world' (i.e....

For Jung, the 'psychic world' (i.e. the world of the mind) was an independent reality, and it was possible to travel there and make the acquaintance of its inhabitants.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
2 months 1 day ago
Two conflicting types of educational systems...

Two conflicting types of educational systems spring from these conflicting aims. One is public and common to many, the other private and domestic. If you wish to know what is meant by public education, read Plato's Republic. Those who merely judge books by their titles take this for a treatise on politics, but it is the finest treatise on education ever written. In popular estimation the Platonic Institute stands for all that is fanciful and unreal. For my own part I should have thought the system of Lycurgus far more impracticable had he merely committed it to writing. Plato only sought to purge man's heart; Lycurgus turned it from its natural course. The public institute does not and cannot exist, for there is neither country nor patriot. The very words should be struck out of our language. The reason does not concern us at present, so that though I know it I refrain from stating it.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 weeks ago
If the people have no faith...

If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 3 weeks ago
Religion is, as it were, the...

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
3 weeks 5 days ago
I hate Communism because it is...

I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty. I am not a Communist, because Communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the State all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the State, whereas I want the abolition of the State, the final eradication of the principle of authority and the patronage proper to the State, which under the pretext of moralizing and civilizing men has hitherto only enslaved, persecuted, exploited and corrupted them. I want to see society and collective or social property organized from below upwards, by way of free association, not from above downwards, by means of any kind of authority whatsoever.

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As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 356
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 2 days ago
Thus there is nothing waste, nothing...

Thus there is nothing waste, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearence. We might compare this to the appearence of a pond in the distance, where we can see the confused movement and swarming of the fish, without distinguishing the fish themselves.Thus we are that each living body has a dominante entelechy, which in case of an animal is the soul, but the members of this living body are full of other living things, plants and animals, of which each has in turn ita dominant entelechy or soul.

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Monadology (69-70).
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