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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The Yin based its propriety...

The Yin based its propriety on that of the Xia, and what it added and subtracted is knowable. The Zhou has based its propriety on that of the Shang and what it added and subtracted is knowable. In this way, what continues from the Chou, even if 100 generations hence, is knowable.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Fate is not in man but...

Fate is not in man but around him.

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Averroes
Averroes
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 03:18
To master this instrument the religious...

To master this instrument the religious thinker must make a preliminary study of logic, just as the lawyer must study legal reasoning. This is no more heretical in the one case than in the other. And logic must be learned from the ancient masters, regardless of the fact that they were not Muslims.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The journey of a thousand miles...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
What, then, of human activities? Is...

What, then, of human activities? Is humankind itself hastening its own end? Man has, for instance, been burning carbon-containing fuel — wood, coal, oil, gas — at a steadily accelerating rate. All these fuels form carbon dioxide. Some is absorbed by plants and the oceans but not as fast as it is produced. This means the carbon dioxide content of the air is going up — slightly but nevertheless up. Carbon dioxide retains heat, and even a small rise means a warming of the Earth's atmosphere. This may result in the melting of the polar ice caps with unusual speed, flooding the world before we have learned climate control. In reverse, our industrial civilization is making our atmosphere dustier so that it reflects more sunlight away and cools the Earth slightly — thus making possible a glacial advance in a few centuries, also before we have learned climate control.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
After all, in the poets love...

After all, in the poets love has its priests, and sometimes one hears a voice which knows how to defend it; but of faith one hears never a word. Who speaks in honor of this passion? Philosophy goes further. Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy. it is supposed to be difficult to understand Hegel, but to understand Abraham is a trifle. To go beyond Hegel's is a miracle, but to get beyond Abraham is the easiest thing of all.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Men grew desperate and the border...

Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.

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Plato
Plato
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04
It is impossible that evils should...

It is impossible that evils should be done away with, for there must always be something opposed to the good; and they must inevitably hover about mortal nature and this earth. Therefore we ought to try to escape from earth to the dwelling of the gods as quickly as we can; and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible, God is in no wise and in no manner unrighteous, but utterly and perfectly righteous, and there is nothing so like him as that one of us who in turn becomes most nearly perfect in righteousness.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
Leaving virtue without proper cultivation;...

Leaving virtue without proper cultivation; not thoroughly discussing what is learned; not being able to move towards righteousness of which a knowledge is gained; and not being able to change what is not good: these are the things which occasion me solicitude.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
Be attentive therefore, according to the...

Be attentive therefore, according to the instruction of the Gospel, to learn obedience from the lily and the bird. Be not affrighted, do no despair, when thou comparest thy life with these teachers. There is nothing to despair about, for indeed thou shalt learn from them; and the Gospel first comforts thee by telling thee that God is the God of patience, and then it adds: 'Thou shalt learn from the lilies and the birds, learn to be absolutely obedient like the lilies and the birds, learn not to serve two masters; for no man can serve two masters, he must either ... or.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord...

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
You have heard that it was...

You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. Exodus 20:14, Seventh Commandment Matthew 5:27-30 (NKJV)

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
One recognizes one's course by discovering...

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
I make no secret about being...

I make no secret about being Jewish ... I just think it's more important to be human and to have a human heritage; and I think it is wrong for anyone to feel that there is anything special about any one heritage of whatever kind. It is delightful to have the human heritage exist in a thousand varieties, for it makes for greater interest, but as soon as one variety is thought to be more important than another, the groundwork is laid for destroying them all.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
Now just as the historical gives...

Now just as the historical gives occasion for the contemporary to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself, since otherwise we speak Socratically, so the testimony of contemporaries gives occasion for each successor to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The institutions of the Ruler are...

The institutions of the Ruler are rooted in his own character and conduct, and sufficient attestation of them is given by the masses of the people. He examines them by comparison with those of the three kings, and finds them without mistake. He sets them up before Heaven and Earth, and finds nothing in them contrary to their mode of operation. He presents himself with them before spiritual beings, and no doubts about them arise. He is prepared to wait for the rise of a sage a hundred ages after, and has no misgivings. His presenting himself with his institutions before spiritual beings, without any doubts arising about them, shows that he knows Heaven. His being prepared, without any misgivings, to wait for the rise of a sage a hundred ages after, shows that he knows men.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
Guide the people by law, subdue...

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
The Spirit of the Lord is...

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Luke 4:18-19 NIV

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
Perfect is the virtue which is...

Perfect is the virtue which is according to the Mean! Rare have they long been among the people, who could practice it!

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Religion is more conservative than any...

Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
The ancients, even though they believed...

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
The objective of all human arrangements...
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
I don't believe in flying saucers......

I don't believe in flying saucers... The energy requirements of interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
For well-being and health, again, the...

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
The purpose of aphorisms is to...

The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
"In the light, the earth remains...

"In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time."

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
The worst readers are those who...
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
...and woe betide fateful curiosity should...
...and woe betide fateful curiosity should it ever succeed in peering through a crack in the chamber of consciousness, out and down into the depths, and thus gain an intimation of the fact that humanity, in the indifference of its ignorance, rests on the pitiless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous clinging in dreams, as it were, to the back of a tiger.
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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
It is well said, then, that...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
We can hope that the ways...

We can hope that the ways of peace will attract the Arabic nations, for their territory and opportunities are broad enough for immeasurable advance, if the energies vented in spleen, are turned instead to a modernisation of the technology, a restoration of the soil, and a renovation of the economic, social, and political structure of those great and venerable lands.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
When you have faults, do not...

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
There is less trouble and trauma...

There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The superior man, when resting...

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
He that is not with me...

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Matthew 12:30 (KJV)

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
There is not love of life...

There is not love of life without despair about life.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
Evils draw men together.

Evils draw men together.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
A man's character is formed by...

A man's character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:45
We all see this....
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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Whoever believes and is baptized will...

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well. Jesus, Mark 16:16-18

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
This heart within me I can...

This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
An observer studying the Solar system...

An observer studying the Solar system dispassionately, and finding himself capable of bringing the four giant planets to his notice, could reasonably say that the Solar system consisted of one star, four planets, and some traces of debris.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
The two guides call out to...

The two guides call out to a man early and late. And yet, no, for when remorse calls to a man it is always late. The call to find the way again by seeking out God in the confession of sins is always at the eleventh hour. Whether you are young or old, whether you have sinned much or little, whether you have offended much or neglected much, the guilt makes this call come at the eleventh hour. The inner agitation of the heart understands what remorse insists upon, that the eleventh hour has come. For in the sense of time, the old man's age is the eleventh hour; and the instant of death, the final moment in the eleventh hour. The indolent youth speaks of a long life that lies before him. The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. But repentance and remorse belong to the eternal in a man.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
The essential nature (concerning the soul)...

The essential nature (concerning the soul) cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest (heart).

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Scientists have pushed back the horizon...

Scientists have pushed back the horizon of time from the biblical 6,000 years to 4,600,000,000 years for the age of Earth a 760,000-fold increase.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
The question is asked in ignorance,...

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
It is characteristic of the most...

It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

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Averroes
Averroes
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 03:18
The double meaning has been given...

The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
The wise is one only.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Of all the cultural aspects of...

Of all the cultural aspects of humanity, the only one which is not broken up into national or regional splinters is science. Different nations have different languages, they may have different religions, may have different dietaries, may have different holidays, different ways of thinking, but here's only one science. Interview by Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (19 June 1988); video (25:31)

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
An intellectual is someone whose mind...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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