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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 months 3 weeks ago
A woman can earn her pardon...

A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.

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The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 1 week ago
The power of God is the...

The power of God is the worship He inspires. The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

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Ch. 12: "Religion and Science", pp. 268-269
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Plutarch
Plutarch
4 months 2 weeks ago
Diogenes the Cynic, when a little...

Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death."

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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
1 month 3 weeks ago
A multitude is irreducible multiplicity; the...

A multitude is irreducible multiplicity; the singular social differences that constitute the multitude must always be expressed and can never be flattened into sameness, unity, identity, or indifference. ... the compact identities of factory workers in the dominant countries have been undermined with the rise of short-term contracts and forced mobility of new forms of work; how migration has challenged traditional notions of national identity; how family identity has changed and so forth.

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
2 weeks 3 days ago
The scientific organization and comprehensive...

The scientific organization and comprehensive exposition in accessible form of the Talmud has a twofold importance for us Jews. It is important in the first place that the high cultural values of the Talmud should not be lost to modern minds among the Jewish people nor to science, but should operate further as a living force. In the second place, The Talmud must be made an open book to the world, in order to cut the ground from under certain malevolent attacks, of anti-Semitic origin, which borrow countenance from the obscurity and inaccessibility of certain passages in the Talmud. To support this cultural work would thus mean an important achievement for the Jewish people.

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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
3 months 1 week ago
What one needs to do at...

What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 5 days ago
Since I would rather make of...

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

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Ch. 26. On the Education of Children
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 4 weeks ago
If I had been by nature...

If I had been by nature extremely quick of apprehension, or had possessed a very accurate and retentive memory or were of a remarkably active and energetic character, the trial would not be conclusive; but in all these natural gifts I am rather below than above par; what I could do, could assuredly be done by any boy or girl of average capacity and healthy physical constitution: and if I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 4 weeks ago
If the Communists conquered the world,...

If the Communists conquered the world, it would be very unpleasant for a while, but not forever. But if the human race is wiped out, that is the end.

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Television interview on March 24, 1958, as quoted in The United States in World Affairs (1959), p. 12
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
3 months 3 weeks ago
You women could make someone fall...

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

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Act I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 3 weeks ago
A third illusion haunts us, that...

A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable. But an old French sentence says, "God works in moments," - "En peu d'heure Dieu labeure." We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance, - what ample borrowers of eternity they are! Life culminates and concentrates; and Homer said, "The Gods ever give to mortals their appointed share of reason only on one day."

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Works and Days
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
1 month 3 weeks ago
Now what is science? ...it is...

Now what is science? ...it is before all a classification, a manner of bringing together facts which appearances separate, though they are bound together by some natural and hidden kinship. Science, in other words, is a system of relations. ...it is in relations alone that objectivity must be sought. ...it is relations alone which can be regarded as objective.External objects... are really objects and not fleeting and fugitive appearances, because they are not only groups of sensations, but groups cemented by a constant bond. It is this bond, and this bond alone, which is the object in itself, and this bond is a relation.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 5 days ago
Courtesy is a science of the...

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
2 months 4 weeks ago
To affirm equality is to affirm...

To affirm equality is to affirm a cohabitation defined in part by an interdependency that takes the edge off the individual boundaries of the body, or that works that edge for its social and political potential.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 months 4 weeks ago
In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of...

In Mohammedanism the narrow principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as in the Far East, regarded as existent in an immediately sensory way but is conceived as the one infinite power elevated above all the multiplicity of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the word, the religion of sublimity.

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Hegel, Philosophy of Mind (quoted by W. Wallace & A. V. Miller in Philosophy of Mind, Oxford 2010; also quoted in other words by Slavoj Žižek in A Glance into the Archives of Islam, Lacan dot com, 1997).
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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 month 3 weeks ago
It's also been attacked from the...

It's also been attacked from the left by people... I teach students at Stanford, and many of them think that liberalism is... the doctrine of their parents' or their grandparents' generation, but it's really not relevant to Gen Z younger people who are impatient for social justice and social change that liberalism is not providing.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
3 weeks 6 days ago
I believe... that every human mind...

I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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Letter to John Adams
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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 month 3 weeks ago
If you look at the sociology...

If you look at the sociology of populism in the United States, it is tied most closely to population density, which... is correlated... to these types of cultural differences... to belief... in traditional cultural values, in family, in religion and the like, and conversely to... belief in immigration and diversity as strengths... This is the fundamental division that's taken hold of the United States. It has been augmented by technology because the internet has succeeded in... destroying every other source of authority that used to filter news and facts and information that... formed the basis of a democratic ability to have political discourse.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 2 weeks ago
The Soldier is perhaps one of...

The Soldier is perhaps one of the most difficult things to realise; but Governments, had they not realised him, could not have existed: accordingly he is here.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 2 weeks ago
In every man's writings, the character...

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

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Goethe (1828).
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 4 weeks ago
You find as you look around...

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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"The Emotional Factor"
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 1 week ago
I do not regard the late...

I do not regard the late Carl Sagan as any kind of authority. On the contrary, as this book will show, I regard him in many ways as a dubious publicity seeker and careerist, more concerned to maintain his reputation as the brilliant and sceptical representative of hard-headed science than to look squarely and honestly at the facts.

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In short, a bit of a crook. pp. xix-xx
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
3 months 2 weeks ago
In which the technical apparatus of...

In which the technical apparatus of production and distribution (with an increasing sector of automation) functions, not as the sum-total of mere instruments which can be isolated from their social and political effects, but rather as a system which determines a priori the product of the apparatus as well as the operations of servicing and extending it. In this society, the productive apparatus tends to become totalitarian to the extent to which it determines not only the socially needed occupations, skills, and attitudes, but also individual needs and aspirations. It thus obliterates the Opposition between the private and public existence, between individual and social needs.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
6 months ago
Is Wagner a human being at...
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 months 3 weeks ago
History has proved us, and all...

History has proved us, and all who thought like us, wrong. It has made it clear that the state of economic development on the Continent at that time was not, by a long way, ripe for the removal of capitalist production.

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Introduction (1895) to Marx's The Class Struggles in France
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is impossible for any man,...

It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrolled power; how then must they be violated when his very elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either wisdom or virtue; when all the feelings of a man are stifled by flattery, and reflection shut out by pleasure! Surely it is madness to make the fate of thousands depend on the caprice of a weak fellow creature, whose very station sinks him NECESSARILY below the meanest of his subjects! But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another--for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

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Edward Said
Edward Said
3 months 1 week ago
As a way of maintaining relative...

As a way of maintaining relative intellectual independence, having the attitude of an amateur instead of a professional is a better course.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
3 weeks 6 days ago
It is always better to have...

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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Letter From Thomas Jefferson to the Rev. James Madison, 19 July 1788
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 3 weeks ago
I have seen manners that make...

I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty, that give the like exhilaration and refine us like that; and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show control; you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. They must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.

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Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
1 month 1 week ago
No furniture so charming as books....

No furniture so charming as books.

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Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 289
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 months 3 weeks ago
When things fall out opportunely for...

When things fall out opportunely for the person concerned, he is not apt to be critical about the how or why, his own immediate personal convenience seeming a sufficient reason for the strangest oddities and revolutions in our sublunary things.

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The Sire de Maletroit's Door.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
4 weeks ago
All hopes and despairs vanish in...

All hopes and despairs vanish in the voracious, funneling whirlwind of God. God laughs, wails, kills, sets us on fire, and then leaves us in the middle of the way, charred embers. And I rejoice to feel between my temples, in the flicker of an eyelid, the beginning and the end of the world. I condense into a lightning moment the seeding, sprouting, blossoming, fructifying, and the disappearance of every tree, animal, man, star, and god. All Earth is a seed planted in the coils of my mind. Whatever struggles for numberless years to unfold and fructify in the dark womb of matter bursts in my head like a small and silent lightning flash. Ah! let us gaze intently on this lightning flash, let us hold it for a moment, let us arrange it into human speech. Let us transfix this momentary eternity which encloses everything, past and future, but without losing in the immobility of language any of its gigantic erotic whirling.

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Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
3 months 4 weeks ago
Before either of us knew it,...

Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 1 week ago
In the inescapable flux, there is...

In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
5 months 5 days ago
When I am attacked by gloomy...

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 1 week ago
In formal logic, a contradiction is...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.

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Ch. 12: "Religion and Science", p. 260
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 2 weeks ago
And this God, the living God,...

And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 3 weeks ago
We are in hell and I...

We are in hell and I will have my turn!

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Inès warns Garcin and Estelle not to make love in her presence, Act 1, sc. 5
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 4 weeks ago
The effect of music is so...

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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Vol. I, Ch. II
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
5 months 1 day ago
Even the free importation of foreign...

Even the free importation of foreign corn could very little affect the interest of the farmers of Great Britain. Corn is a much more bulky commodity than butcher's-meat. A pound of wheat at a penny is as dear as a pound of butcher's-meat at fourpence. The small quantity of foreign corn imported even in times of the greatest scarcity, may satisfy our farmers that they can have nothing to fear from the freest importation.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 2 weeks ago
Since the great foundation...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 4 weeks ago
Men of learning are those who...

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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"Thinking for Oneself"
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 3 weeks ago
We are not ostriches, and cannot...

We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat. If it were really indispensable, or, if not indispensable, at least in some way useful! But it is quite unnecessary ... And this is continually being confirmed by the fact that young, kind, undepraved people - especially women and girls - without knowing how it logically follows, feel that virtue is incompatible with beefsteaks, and, as soon as they wish to be good, give up eating flesh.

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Ch. X
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
4 months 2 weeks ago
Once he saw the officials of...

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 45
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
5 months 3 weeks ago
"What on earth prompted you to...

"What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?""I don't know. My... my code of morals, perhaps.""Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 3 weeks ago
Resting on your laurels is as...

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
5 months 6 days ago
For what is life but a...

For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 months 3 weeks ago
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed...

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
3 months 3 weeks ago
On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach,...

On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach, and such authors are the individualities who have great interest for someone who is composing an imaginary construction. They frequently are well informed about the religious-that is, they know definitely that they do not want to have anything to do with it. This is a great advantage over the systematicians, who without knowing where the religious really is located take it upon themselves to explain it-sometimes obsequiously, sometimes superciliously, but always unsuccessfully.

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Soren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life's Way, 1845, Hong 1988 p. 452
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 months 3 weeks ago
Our subjective judgment of what seems...

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

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Chapter 6 "Origins and Miracles" (p. 162)
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