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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 3 weeks ago
There is no mystery in humans...

There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.

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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
1 week ago
In the realm of physics it...

In the realm of physics it is perhaps only the theory of relativity which has made it quite clear that the two essences, space and time, entering into our intuition, have no place in the world constructed by mathematical physics. Colours are thus "really" not even æther-vibrations, but merely a series of values of mathematical functions in which occur four independent parameters corresponding to the three dimensions of space, and the one of time.

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Introduction
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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 months 2 weeks ago
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed...

Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Classics which at home are drowsily...

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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Voyage to England
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 weeks ago
It is not by prayer and...

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months ago
All thought must, directly or indirectly,...

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 month 2 weeks ago
I've never been an optimist but...

I've never been an optimist but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised, and that's a reason for being pessimistic, but I've always defended a certain kind of pessimism because what is known as optimism is really a collection of illusions and I think one must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they can alone surmount the problems which they themselves create.

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From an interview with George Eaton "The Roger Scruton interview: the full transcript", New Statesman
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 4 weeks ago
It is a general popular error...

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
2 months 3 weeks ago
Speculative philosophy as the realisation of...

Speculative philosophy as the realisation of God is the positing of God, and at the same time his cancellation or negation; theism and at the same time atheism: for God - in the sense of theology - is God only as long as he is taken to be a being distinguished from and independent of the being of man as well as of nature. The theism that as the positing of God is simultaneously his negation or, conversely, as the negation of God equally his affirmation, is pantheism. Theological theism - that is, theism properly speaking - is nothing other than imaginary pantheism which itself is nothing other than real and true theism.

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Part I, Section 14
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 weeks ago
He who gives himself entirely to...

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 month 6 days ago
The functional regions of the brain...

The functional regions of the brain which subserve physical agony, the "pain centres", and the mainly limbic substrates of emotion, appear in phylogenetic terms to be remarkably constant in the vertebrate line. The neural pathways involving serotonin, the periaquaductal grey matter, bradykinin, dynorphin, ATP receptors, the major opioid families, substance P etc all existed long before hominids walked the earth. Not merely is the biochemistry of suffering disturbingly similar where not effectively type-identical across a wide spectrum of vertebrate (and even some invertebrate) species. It is at least possible that members of any species whose members have more pain cells exhibiting greater synaptic density than humans sometimes suffer more atrociously than we do, whatever their notional "intelligence".

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1.9 The Taste of Depravity
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John Gray
John Gray
1 month 4 days ago
As Malaparte saw it, Naples was...

As Malaparte saw it, Naples was a pagan city with an ancient sense of time. Christianity taught those who were converted to it to think of history as the unfolding of a single plot - a moral drama of sin and redemption. In the ancient world there was no such plot - only a multitude of stories that were forever being repeated. Inhabiting that ancient world, the Neapolitans did not expect any fundamental alteration in human affairs. Not having accepted the Christian story of redemption, they had not been seduced by the myth of progress. Never having believed civilization to be permanent, they were not surprised when it foundered.

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An Old Chaos: Frozen Horses and Deserts of Brick (p. 22)
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
4 months ago
Hatred, as well as love, renders...

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 3 weeks ago
Probably, the most-often-repeated lesson in history...

Probably, the most-often-repeated lesson in history is that foreigners who are called in to help one side in a civil war take over for themselves. It is a lesson that seems never to be learned despite endless repetition.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 weeks ago
Nothing makes the earth seem so...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 95
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 3 weeks ago
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 weeks ago
I observe that a very large...

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

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Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 3 weeks ago
Literacy, in translating man out of...

Literacy, in translating man out of the closed world of tribal depth and resonance, gave man an eye for an ear and ushered him into a visual open world of specialized and divided consciousness.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 3 weeks ago
I became my own only when...

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

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Letters of C. S. Lewis (17 July 1953), para. 2, p. 251 - as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 334
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 3 weeks ago
Every rebellion implies some kind of...

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
To live without duties is obscene....

To live without duties is obscene.

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Aristocracy
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Next to the originator of a...

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

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Quotation and Originality
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 3 weeks ago
In dreams you sometimes fall from...

In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wake up from it. It was the same in my dream. I did not feel any pain, but it seemed as though with my shot everything within me was shaken and everything was suddenly dimmed, and it grew horribly black around me. I seemed to be blinded, and it benumbed, and I was lying on something hard, stretched on my back; I saw nothing, and could not make the slightest movement.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 5 days ago
We must remove the Decalogue out...

We must remove the Decalogue out of sight and heart.

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Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette, 4, 188. As cited by Jonathan Ramachandran (January 1, 2019), Lake of Fire - Hope for the Wicked One Day? - Essays in First Christianity, 5 Loaf 2 Fish Publications, p. 1264.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
What to think of other people?...

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 3 weeks ago
Third, these general ideas are not...

Third, these general ideas are not mere words, nor do they consist in this, that certain concrete facts will every time happen under certain descriptions of conditions; but they are just as much, or rather far more, living realities than the feelings themselves out of which they are concreted. And to say that mental phenomenon are governed by law does not mean merely that they are describable by a general formula; but that there is a living idea, a conscious continuum of feeling which pervades them, and to which they are docile.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 months 2 weeks ago
The principles of ethics come from...

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

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Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 149
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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 4 weeks ago
All styles are good...

All styles are good except the boring kind.

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L'Enfant prodigue: comédie en vers dissillabes (1736), Preface
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 month 1 week ago
corporate globalization is really about an...

corporate globalization is really about an aggressive privatization of the water, biodiversity, and food systems of the Earth, when these communities declare sovereignty and act on that sovereignty, they have developed a powerful response to globalization. Living democracy then is the democracy that is custodian of the living wealth on which people depend.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the first place, the German...

In the first place, the German is a branch of the Teutonic race. Of the latter it is sufficient to say here that its mission was to combine the social order established in ancient Europe with the true religion preserved in ancient Asia, and in this way to develop in and by itself a new and different age after the ancient world had perished.

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The Chief Difference Between The Germans And The Other Peoples Of Teutonic Descent.
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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
5 days ago
No, the enjoyment of an idle...

No, the enjoyment of an idle life doesn't cost any money. The capacity for true enjoyment of idleness is lost in the moneyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme contempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatient with the business of making money.

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Plato
Plato
4 months 3 weeks ago
When there is a number...

Parnenides: When there is a number of things which seem to you to be great, you may think, as you look at them all, that there is one and the same idea in them, and hence you think the great is one. But if with your mind's eye you regard the absolute great and these many great things in the same way, will not another great appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 weeks ago
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next...

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks 4 days ago
All greatness is unconscious, or it...

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks 4 days ago
The Public is an old woman....

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

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Journal (1835).
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
When I happen to be busy,...

When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 4 weeks ago
By the disposition of a stupendous...

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

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Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
1 month 1 day ago
From each as they choose, to...

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

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Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Patterning, p. 160
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John Gray
John Gray
1 month 4 days ago
Blair has been the modern man...

Blair has been the modern man he claims to be: for him, a sense of subjective certainty is all that is needed for an action to be right. If deception is needed to realise the providential design, it cannot be truly deceitful.

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Neoconned!: How Blair took New Labour for a ride, The Independent
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 3 weeks ago
Her face seems ravaged by both...

Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
So nigh is grandeur to our...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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Voluntaries, st. 3
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 5 days ago
There is no man....

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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Ch. 9
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 3 weeks ago
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in...

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

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p. 43
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 1 week ago
When an acquaintance goes by I...

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 2 weeks ago
Let us go on committing suicide...

Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 4 days ago
Human beings have....
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 month 4 weeks ago
High school is closer to the...

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

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Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed.
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
2 months ago
We live in a world where...

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

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"The Implosion of Meaning in the Media," p. 79
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 weeks ago
The inherent contradiction of human life...

The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the other the existing order of life which has for centuries occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Nothing can be preserved that is...

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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