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8 months 4 days ago

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

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Act 10, sc. 2
6 months 4 weeks ago

I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire!

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12:49 (CEV)
4 months 2 days ago

But that which is useful is the better.

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III, 6
6 months 3 weeks ago

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...

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6 months 2 weeks ago

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

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Ch. 2
7 months 3 days ago

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.

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Fragment No. 32
4 weeks ago

Sometimes I can agree with Adam. Universal Humanism, in one of its rule sets starts with individual survival:

1) Survive
2) Don't prevent another from surviving.
3) Help the less fortunate other.

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6 months 3 weeks ago

There are in our minds in solution a vast number of emotional attitudes, feelings ready to be re-excited when the proper stimulus arrives, and more than anything else it is these forms, this residue of experience, which, fuller and richer than in the mind if the ordinary man, constitute the artist's capital. What is called the magic of the artist resides in his ability to transfer these values from one field of experience to another, to attach them to objects of our common life, and by his imaginative insight make these objects poignant and momentous. Not colors, not sense qualities as such, are either matter or form, but these qualities as thoroughly imbued, impregnated, with transferred value. And then they are either matter or form according to the direction of our interest.

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p. 123
5 months 3 weeks ago

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

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On The Natural Inequality of Men
8 months 6 days ago

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

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7 months 3 weeks ago

"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."

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39 Philip
8 months 4 days ago

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

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6 months 3 weeks ago

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

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Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?
4 months 4 weeks ago

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

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Salviati, First Day, Stillman Drake translation
8 months 1 week ago

It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

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Chapter IV, p. 420.
7 months 6 days ago

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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9 months 2 days ago

There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn. If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. This word is not too much. Again I fancy Sisyphus returning toward his rock, and the sorrow was in the beginning.

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6 months 3 days ago

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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8 months 3 weeks ago

An unjust law is no law at all.

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On Free Choice Of The Will, Book 1, and 5
9 months 2 days ago

One might think that a period which, in a space of fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings should be condemned out of hand. But its culpability must still be understood... In more ingenuous times, when the tyrant razed cities for his own greater glory, when the slave chained to the conqueror's chariot was dragged through the rejoicing streets, when enemies were thrown to the wild beasts in front of the assembled people, the mind did not reel before such unabashed crimes, and the judgment remained unclouded. But slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or by a taste for the superhuman, in one sense cripple judgment. On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence, through a curious transposition peculiar to our times, it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself.

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7 months 3 weeks ago

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 49
8 months 3 weeks ago

O immortal gods! Men do not realize how great a revenue parsimony can be!

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Paradoxa Stoicorum; Paradox VI, 49
7 months 1 day ago

This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal.

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8 months 2 weeks ago

States as great engines move slowly.

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Book II
7 months 2 days ago

Eros is a superhuman power which, like nature herself, allows itself to be conquered and exploited as though it were impotent. But triumph over nature is dearly paid for. Nature requires no explanations of principle, but asks only for tolerance and wise measure. "Eros is a mighty daemon," as the wise Diotima said to Socrates. We shall never get the better of him, or only to our own hurt. He is not the whole of our inward nature, though he is at least one of its essential aspects.

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Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, CW 7 (1957). "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" P.32f
8 months 1 week ago

His character does not appear more extraordinary and unusual by the mixture of so much absurdity with so much penetration, than by his tempering such violent ambition, and such enraged fanaticism with so much regard to justice and humanity.

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Volume III, Chapter LXI; referring to Oliver Cromwell
8 months 6 days ago

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

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"The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War" in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10/1/1945
4 months 4 days ago

Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is the same-to prevent trade. The difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

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Ch. 6
6 months 2 weeks ago

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.

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p. 100; Ch. 12, April 28, 1938.
5 months 4 weeks ago

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

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"Rays of Hope" (p. 106)
8 months 6 days ago

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

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6 months 2 weeks ago

Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday.

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7 months 1 week ago

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

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8 months 6 days ago

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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p. 370
4 months 3 weeks ago

To the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under names or formulas; it stood naked, flashing in on him there, beautiful, awful, unspeakable. Nature was to this man, what to the Thinker and Prophet it forever is, preternatural. This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;-that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain.

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4 months 3 weeks ago

Everything over which I have might that cannot be torn from me remains my property; well, then let might decide about property, and I will expect everything from my might! Alien might, might that I leave to another, makes me an owned slave: then let my own might make me an owner. Let me then withdraw the might that I have conceded to others out of ignorance regarding the strength of my own might! Let me say to myself, what my might reaches to is my property; and let me claim as property everything that I feel myself strong enough to attain, and let me extend my actual property as far as I entitle, that is, empower, myself to take.

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Cambridge 1995, p. 227, 228
8 months 1 day ago

The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean - but, rather, what you mean.

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p. 50e
6 months 2 days ago

You don't have to be a scientist - you don't have to play the Bunsen burner - in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.

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6 months 4 weeks ago

And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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10:41-42 (King James Version| KJV)
8 months 4 days ago

But perhaps I lack the gift. I see I've described her as being like a sword. That's true as far as it goes. But utterly inadequate by itself, and misleading. I ought to have said 'But also like a garden. Like a nest of gardens, wall within wall, hedge within hedge, more secret, more full of fragrant and fertile life, the further you explore.' And then, of her, and every created thing I praise, I should say 'in some way, in its unique way, like Him who made it.' Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.

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8 months 1 week ago

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

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Sec. 121
7 months 1 week ago

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

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Section 11
7 months 1 day ago

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.

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"The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry," in Popular Scientific Lectures (1898), p. 192
9 months 2 days ago

What is a rebel? A man who says no. 

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Chapter 1
7 months 2 weeks ago

When a reasonable Soul forsaketh his divine nature, and becometh beast-like, it dieth. For though the substance of the Soul be incorruptible: yet, lacking the use of Reason, it is reputed dead; for it loseth the Intellective Life.

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