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comfortdragon
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Propaganda...

Propaganda:

Good = God (take a letter)
Evil = Devil (add a letter)

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William James
William James
2 months 4 weeks ago
Most of what happens actually is...

Most of what happens actually is forgotten.

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Ch. 16
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 5 days ago
What song the Syrens sang, or...

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

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Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
Well, then, arrest him. You can...

Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
1 month 2 weeks ago
The success of most…

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 6 days ago
Environment is process, not container.

Environment is process, not container.

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(p. 30)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Nothing is a better proof of...

Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.

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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 month 4 weeks ago
The blindness of those who think...

The blindness of those who think it absurd to suppose that complex organic forms may have arisen by successive modifications out of simple ones becomes astonishing when we remember that complex organic forms are daily being thus produced. A tree differs from a seed immeasurably in every respect... Yet is the one changed in the course of a few years into the other: changed so gradually, that at no moment can it be said - Now the seed ceases to be, and the tree exists.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months ago
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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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 weeks 4 days ago
The devil, depend upon it, can...

The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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The Suicide Club, Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
4 weeks ago
Good order is....
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
Blessed are the hearts that can...

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 week 1 day ago
... our descendants may recognize that...

... our descendants may recognize that we are the sociopathic emotional primitives in the grip of an affective psychosis. Jealousy, envy, resentment, ridicule, hate, anger, disgust, spite, contempt, schadenfreude and a whole gamut of nameless but mean-spirited states we undergo each day are a toxic legacy of our Darwinian past. More commonly, perhaps, our genetic make-up ensures we simply feel indifference to the plight of all but a handful of significant others in our lives. Right now, for instance, one knows dimly at some level that there is frightful and preventable suffering in the world. Yet most of us feel no overpowering moral urgency to do anything about it.

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"Utopian Pharmacology: Mental Health in the Third Millennium MDMA and Beyond", BLTC Research, last updated 2020
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 months ago
Serious occupation is labor that has...

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

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Pt. I, sec. 2, ch. 1
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4 weeks 1 day ago
Every one who has a heart...

Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

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To the Working People, Complete Works, trans. Leo Wiener, Vol 24, p. 129
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 3 weeks ago
The absurd ... is an experience...

The absurd ... is an experience to be lived through, a point of departure, the equivalent, in existence of Descartes' methodical doubt. Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. The first and only evidence that is supplied me, within the terms of the absurdist experience, is rebellion ... Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
One hardly saves a world without...

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
The foundation of all technology is...

The foundation of all technology is fire.

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René Descartes
René Descartes
3 months 1 week ago
Thus, all unknown quantities can be...

Thus, all unknown quantities can be expressed in terms of a single quantity, whenever the problem can be constructed by means of circles and straight lines, or by conic sections, or even by some other curve of degree not greater than the third or fourth.But I shall not stop to explain this in more detail, because I should deprive you of the pleasure of mastering it yourself, as well as of the advantage of training your mind by working over it, which is in my opinion the principal benefit to be derived from this science. Because, I find nothing here so difficult that it cannot be worked out by anyone at all familiar with ordinary geometry and with algebra, who will consider carefully all that is set forth in this treatise.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 3 weeks ago
You can take away a man's...

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 2 weeks ago
People do not feel in any...

People do not feel in any way ashamed or guilty about spending money on new clothes or a new car instead of giving it to famine relief. (Indeed, the alternative does not occur to them.) This way of looking at the matter cannot be justified. When we buy new clothes not to keep ourselves warm but to look "well-dressed" we are not providing for any important need. We would not be sacrificing anything significant if we were to continue to wear our old clothes, and give the money to famine relief. By doing so, we would be preventing another person from starving. It follows from what I have said earlier that we ought to give money away, rather than spend it on clothes which we do not need to keep us warm. To do so is not charitable, or generous. Nor is it the kind of act which philosophers and theologians have called "supererogatory" - an act which it would be good to do, but not wrong not to do. On the contrary, we ought to give the money away, and it is wrong not to do so.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Not content with real sufferings, the...

Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?

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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
1 week 5 days ago
We have been Godlike in our...

We have been Godlike in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbitlike in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

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Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History, entered into the Congressional Record by Senator Ernest Gruening
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William James
William James
2 months 4 weeks ago
The moral flabbiness born of the...

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.

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To H. G. Wells, 9/11/1906
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
2 months 4 weeks ago
The case of the conscience of...

The case of the conscience of Eichmann, which is admittedly complicated but is by no means unique, is scarcely comparable to the case of the German generals, one of whom, when asked at Nuremberg, "How was it possible that all of you honorable generals could continue to serve a murderer with such unquestioning loyalty?," replied that it was "not the task of a soldier to act as judge over his supreme commander. Let history do that or God in Heaven."

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Ch. VIII
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 month 1 day ago
I do feel that evolution is...

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

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On evolution vs. "intelligent design", interviewed by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
The inclination to seek the truth...

The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.

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(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 1, p. 24
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 week ago
Time, which is the author of...

Time, which is the author of authors.

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Book I, iv, 12
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 3 weeks ago
For his the artist's life is,...

For his the artist's life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and the ruthless creative passion on the other, which under certain conditions crushes all personal desires into the dust.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 1 day ago
A man's face as a rule...

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
"God is just and punishes us;...

"God is just and punishes us; that is all we need to know; as far as we are concerned the rest is merely curiosity." Such was the conclusion of Lamennais (Essai, etc., partie, chap. vii.), an opinion shared by many others. Calvin also held the same view. But is there anyone content with this? Pure curiosity! - to call this load that well nigh crushes our heart pure curiosity!

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 1 day ago
The best is the enemy of the good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 2 days ago
Because of the way that myth...
Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people the ancient Greeks, for instance more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Once the needs of hunger are...

Once the needs of hunger are satisfied - and they are soon satisfied - the vanity, the necessity - for it is a necessity - arises of imposing ourselves upon and surviving in others. Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. He boasts even of his weakness and his misfortunes, for want of anything better to boast of, and is like a child who, in order to attract attention, struts about with a bandaged finger.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 week 6 days ago
I've learned from the Bhagavad Gita...

I've learned from the Bhagavad Gita and other teachings of our culture to detach myself from the results of what I do, because those are not in my hands. The context is not in your control, but your commitment is yours to make, and you can make the deepest commitment with a total detachment about where it will take you. You want it to lead to a better world, and you shape your actions and take full responsibility for them, but then you have detachment. And that combination of deep passion and deep detachment allows me always to take on the next challenge because I don't cripple myself, I don't tie myself in knots. I function like a free being. I think getting that freedom is a social duty because I think we owe it to each other not to burden each other with prescription and demands. I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 1 week ago
You ask me why I do...

You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

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Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 94
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John Gray
John Gray
6 days ago
The most important feature of natural...

The most important feature of natural selection is that it is a process of drift. Evolution has no end-point or direction, so if the development of society is an evolutionary process it is one that is going nowhere.

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An Old Chaos: Humanism and Flying Saucers (p. 78)
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
3 weeks 4 days ago
You don't have to be a...

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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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months ago
Mysticism is, in essence, little more...

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 2 weeks ago
Let us rejoice and give thanks....

Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His members.

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(1 Cor. 12:27). p. 415
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
3 weeks 4 days ago
There has been progress in design,...

There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.

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Chapter 7 "Constructive Evolution" (p. 186)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 1 week ago
No sacrifice is lost for a...

No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal!

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months ago
Since reasoning, or inference, the principal...

Since reasoning, or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words, and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.

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p. 11: Cited in Gaines (1976) "Foundations of fuzzy reasoning" in: International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 8(6), p. 623
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months ago
If this labourer were in possession...

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

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Vol. I, Ch. 11, pg. 336.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 4 weeks ago
God can make good use of...

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 3 weeks ago
The circle of day and night...

The circle of day and night is the law of the classical world: the most restricted but most demanding of the necessities of the world, the most inevitable but the simplest of the legislations of nature.This was a law that excluded all dialectics and all reconciliation, consequently laying the foundations for the smooth unity of knowledge as well as the uncompromising division of tragic existence. It reigns on a world without darkness, which knows neither effusiveness nor the gentle charms of lyricism. All is waking or dreams, truth or error, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months ago
The ancient philosophers... all of them...

The ancient philosophers... all of them assert that the elements, and those things which are called by them principles, are contraries, though they establish them without reason, as if they were compelled to assert this by truth itself. They differ, however... that some of them assume prior, and others posterior principles; and some of them things more known according to reason, but others such as are more known according to sense: for some establish the hot and the cold, others the moist and the dry, others the odd and the even, and others strife and friendship, as the causes of generation. ...in a certain respect they assert the same things, and speak differently from each other. They assert different things... but the same things, so far as they speak analogously. For they assume principles from the same co-ordination; since, of contraries, some contain, and others are contained.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months ago
Something that is merely negative creates...

Something that is merely negative creates nothing.

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Notebook VI, The Chapter on Capital, p. 532.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
There is more to a science...

There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 4 weeks ago
The doctrine of the Second Coming...

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

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