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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 04:40
The problem is not to discover...

The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to arrive at a multiplicity of relationships. And, no doubt, homosexuality is not a form of desire but something desirable. Therefore, we have to work at becoming homosexuals.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45
Love truth…

Love truth, but pardon error.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
What the great learning teaches, is...

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
How many loaves have ye? 15:34

How many loaves have ye? 15:34 (KJV)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
Some of your hurts you have...

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 04:40
If our intention now is to...

If our intention now is to reveal classical unreason on its own terms, outside of its ties with dreams and error, it must be understood not as a form of reason that is somehow diseased, lost or mad, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 05:30
Kant's philosophy shifts for the first...

Kant's philosophy shifts for the first time the whole of modern thought and being (Desein) into the clarity and transparency of the foundation (Begrundung). This determines every attitude toward knowledge since then, as well as the bounds (Abgrenzungen) and appraisals of the sciences in the nineteenth century up to the present time. Therein Kant towers so far above all who precede and follow that even those who reject him or go beyond him still remain entirely dependent upon him.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 04:29
Show that you know this only

Show that you know this only, how you may never either fail to get what you desire or fall into what you avoid.

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René Descartes
René Descartes
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 04:44
No doubt you know that Galileo...

No doubt you know that Galileo had been convicted not long ago by the Inquisition, and that his opinion on the movement of the Earth had been condemned as heresy. Now I will tell you that all things I explain in my treatise, among which is also that same opinion about the movement of the Earth, all depend on one another, and are based upon certain evident truths. Nevertheless, I will not for the world stand up against the authority of the Church. ...I have the desire to live in peace and to continue on the road on which I have started.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 01:46
Without some redistribution of wealth and...

Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above and below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
If the only significant history of...

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06
When they have really learned to...

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
As if there could be true...

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
The superior man, extensively studying...

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44
A metaphysics of morals is therefore...

A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation - for investigating the source of the practical basic principles that lie a priori in our reason - but also because morals themselves remain subject to all sorts of corruption as long as we are without that clue and supreme norm by which to appraise them correctly...

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
In that very hour he became...

In that very hour he became overjoyed in the holy spirit and said: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have carefully hidden these things from wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to young children. Yes, O Father, because this is the way you approved. Luke 10:21, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

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William James
William James
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49
An act has no ethical quality...

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
The souls of emperors and cobblers...

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 - 03:30
He who disdained not to assume...

He who disdained not to assume us unto Himself, did not disdain to take our place and speak our words, in order that we might speak His words.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
I disclose my mysteries to those...

I disclose my mysteries to those who are worthy of my mysteries. (62)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
And every man, in love or...

And every man, in love or pride, Of his fate is ever wide.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 04:40
Not only must people know, they...

Not only must people know, they must see with their own eyes. Because they must be made to be afraid; but also because they must be the witnesses, the guarantors, of the punishment, and because they must to a certain extent take part in it.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 01:55
I do not speak here of...

I do not speak here of divine truths... because they are infinitely superior to nature: God alone can place them in the soul... I know that he has desired that they should enter from the heart into the mind, and not from the mind into the heart, to humiliate that proud power of reasoning that pretends to the right to be the judge of the things that the will chooses; and to cure this infirm will which is wholly corrupted by its filthy attachments.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
There are, besides, eternal truths, such...

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
To worship to other than...

To worship to other than one's own ancestral spirits is brown-nosing. If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage. Variant: To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
In skating over thin ice our...

In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
Fire is the most tolerable third...

Fire is the most tolerable third party.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
Communism differs from all previous movements...

Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.

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William James
William James
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49
Freedom is only necessity understood. The...

Freedom is only necessity understood.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
It is only he who is...

It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can give its full development to his nature. Able to give its full development to his own nature, he can do the same to the nature of other men. Able to give its full development to the nature of other men, he can give their full development to the natures of animals and things. Able to give their full development to the natures of creatures and things, he can assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth. Able to assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
What do you want to do...

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 03:51
If you reject absolutely any single...

If you reject absolutely any single sensation without stopping to discriminate with respect to that which awaits confirmation between matter of opinion and that which is already present, whether in sensation or in feelings or in any immediate perception of the mind, you will throw into confusion even the rest of your sensations by your groundless belief and so you will be rejecting the standard of truth altogether. If in your ideas based upon opinion you hastily affirm as true all that awaits confirmation as well as that which does not, you will not escape error, as you will be maintaining complete ambiguity whenever it is a case of judging between right and wrong opinion.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 23:20
Accent is the soul…

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45
Life is just a notebook with...

Life is just a notebook with blank pages. Every time we make a mistake, the pages get stained and living in it becomes impossible.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Mon, 1 Dec 2025 - 01:36
Exclusion....

You're either excluding the right people or including the wrong people.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
Every poet has trembled on the...

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 18:52
I am a lover of liberty....

I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
My life has been full of...

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
When will the world learn that...

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

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William James
William James
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49
Religion...is a man's total reaction upon...

Religion...is a man's total reaction upon life.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53
In the same year in which...

In the same year in which I began Latin, I made my first commencement in the Greek poet with the Iliad. After I had made some progress in this, my father put Pope's translation into my hands. It was the first English verse I had cared to read, and it became one of the books in which for many years I most delighted: I think I must have read it from twenty to thirty times through. I should not have thought it worth while to mention a taste apparently so natural to boyhood, if I had not, as I think, observed that the keen enjoyment of this brilliant specimen of narrative and versification is not so universal with boys, as I should have expected both à priori and from my individual experience.

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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 20:45
Thus Angels' Bread is madeThe Bread...

Thus Angels' Bread is madeThe Bread of man today:The Living Bread from HeavenWith figures doth away:O wondrous gift indeed!The poor and lowly mayUpon their Lord and Master feed.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
I am sorry to say that...

I am sorry to say that at the moment I am so busy as to be convinced that life has no meaning whatever... I do not see that we can judge what would be the result of the discovery of truth, since none has hitherto been discovered.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:24
It is, I think, safe to...

It is, I think, safe to say that nothing was more alien to the minds of the scientists, who brought about the most radical and most rapid revolutionary process the world has ever seen, than any will to power. Nothing was more remote than any wish to 'conquer space' and to go to the moon. It was indeed their search for 'true reality' that led them to lose confidence in appearances, in the phenomena as they reveal themselves of their own accord to human sense and reason. They were inspired by an extraordinary love of harmony and lawfulness which taught them that they would have to step outside any merely given sequence or series of occurrences if they wanted to discover the overall beauty and order of the whole, that is, the universe.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 18:52
In regione caecorum rex est luscus....

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

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Plato
Plato
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04
Democracy does not contain any force...

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:47
Empathy trap...do balance yourself....
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
Every word instantly becomes a concept...
Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
Blessed are those who have no...

Blessed are those who have no talent!

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53
He blamed as severely what he...

He blamed as severely what he thought a bad action, when the motive was a feeling of duty, as if the agents had been consciously evil doers. He would not have accepted as a plea in mitigation for inquisitors, that they sincerely believed burning heretics to be an obligation of conscience. But though he did not allow honesty of purpose to soften his disapprobation of actions, it had its full effect on his estimation of characters. No one prized conscientiousness and rectitude of intention more highly, or was more incapable of valuing any person in whom he did not feel assurance of it.

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