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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 4 weeks ago
Is not every true Reformer, by...

Is not every true Reformer, by the nature of him, a Priest first of all? He appeals to Heaven's invisible justice against Earth's visible force; knows that it, the invisible, is strong and alone strong. He is a believer in the divine truth of things; a seer, seeing through the shows of things; a worshipper, in one way or the other, of the divine truth of things; a Priest, that is. If he be not first a Priest, he will never be good for much as a Reformer.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
6 months 3 days ago
O light! This is the cry...

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. Return to Tipasa (1954) Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
3 months 3 weeks ago
But if Germany, thanks to Hitler...

But if Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

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John Locke
John Locke
5 months 1 week ago
As usurpation is the exercise of...

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to...

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Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 199
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Voltaire
Voltaire
5 months 1 week ago
If this is the best of...

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
3 months ago
All of us need an identity...

All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

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Rivers of Blood BBC2 documentary
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
2 months 2 weeks ago
What is an artist? A provincial...

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

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Every Time We Say Goodbye in Sight and Sound [London]
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 months 1 week ago
Vice itself lost half its evil...

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

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Volume iii, p. 332
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Plutarch
Plutarch
4 months 3 weeks ago
He made one of Antipater's recommendation...

He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 4 days ago
I'm constantly amazed by how easily...

I'm constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self....How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our very own!

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XII. 4:160
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
5 months 1 week ago
There is a physical relation between...

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 83.
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 months 4 days ago
When Fortune is on our side,...

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

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Maxim 275
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 month 3 weeks ago
Very often the things that cost...

Very often the things that cost nothing cost us the most heavily; I can show you many objects the quest and acquisition of which have wrested freedom from our hands.

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Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan
2 months 2 days ago
Nature has made a race….

Nature has made a race of workers; that is the Chinese race, with a marvelous dexterity of hand and hardly any feeling of honor; govern this race with justice by exacting from them through the competence of such government an ample dowry to the conquering race; the subordinate race will be satisfied; a race of workers of the earth, such is the Negro; let us be for him good and human, and everything will be in order -- a race of masters and soldiers, that is the European race.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
Life is the terrible condition

It's quite true that there were billions of years that I didn't exist that I was never bothered about.

Life itself is sitting in a room with a murderer, while eating a nice meal. You're just waiting for the meal to be over...

LIFE is the terrible condition.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
6 months 1 week ago
Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic....

Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly, all men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves and to attack others.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 4 weeks ago
Verily I say unto thee, That...

Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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26:34 (KJV) Said to Peter.
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
3 months 3 weeks ago
The demagogues, impresarios of alteracion, who...

The demagogues, impresarios of alteracion, who have already caused the death of several civilizations, harass men so that they shall not reflect, see to it that they are kept herded together in crowds so that they cannot reconstruct their individuality in the one place where it can be reconstructed, which is in solitude.

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Novalis
Novalis
4 months 4 days ago
Surely this voice meant our Teacher;...

Surely this voice meant our Teacher; for it is he that can collect the indications which lie scattered on all sides. A singular light kindles in his looks, when at length the high Rune lies before us, and he watches in our eyes whether the star has yet risen upon us, which is to make the Figure visible and intelligible.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
5 months 2 weeks ago
Origen, of course, is also a...

Origen, of course, is also a great advocate of the allegorical approach. Yet I think you will have to admit that our modem theologians either despise this method of interpretation or are completely ignorant of it. As a matter of fact they surpass the pagans of antiquity in the subtlety of their distinctions.

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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
5 months 1 week ago
Nature offers nothing that can be...

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's ; but, under nature, everything belongs to all - that is, they have authority to claim it for themselves. But, under dominion, where it is by common law determined what belongs to this man, and what to that, he is called just who has a constant will to render to every man his own, but he, unjust who strives, on the contrary, to make his own that which belongs to another.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 3 weeks ago
The human body is an instrument...

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

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p. 349.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 4 weeks ago
We are firm believers in the...

We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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Goethe.
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
4 months 1 week ago
There are three successive states of...

There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.

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p. 104
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 4 weeks ago
Everywhere the human soul stands between...

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

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Essays, Goethe's Works.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
5 months 2 weeks ago
We believe that the very beginning...

We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 months 1 week ago
Everything in the universe goes by...

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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Works and Days
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
5 months 1 week ago
What alone has value is the...

What alone has value is the use to which life is put and the end to which it is directed. The value of life has to be created by man, it cannot be obtained through luck but only through wisdom. He who is anxiously concerned over losing his life will never enjoy life.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), pages 141
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
2 months 3 weeks ago
We have classical associations and great...

We have classical associations and great names of our own which we can confidently oppose to the most splendid of ancient times. Senate has not to our ears a sound so venerable as Parliament. We respect the Great Charter more than the laws of Solon. The Capitol and the Forum impress us with less awe than our own Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey... The list of warriors and statesmen by whom our constitution was founded or preserved, from De Montfort down to Fox, may well stand a comparison with the Fasti of Rome. The dying thanksgiving of Sydney is as noble as the libation which Thrasea poured to Liberating Jove: and we think with far less pleasure of Cato tearing out his entrails than of Russell saying, as he turned away from his wife, that the bitterness of death was past.

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'History', The Edinburgh Review (May 1828), quoted in The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. I (1860), p. 252
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 2 weeks ago
What is beginning to emerge, then,...

What is beginning to emerge, then, is a theory about psychic sensitivity. It runs as follows. When I relax deeply, it is as if someone opened up the partition between the two compartments of my brain, turning them into a single large room. I experience a sense of mental freedom as if I can suddenly breathe more deeply, and a feeling of contact with things. Everyone has had the experience of being in a state of hurry or excitement, and failing to notice that they have bruised or scratched themselves -- until the excitement evaporates and the pain makes itself known. Hurry and tension raise our sensitivity threshold, and at the same time, erect a glass wall between us and reality. In the "unicameral" state, this wall vanishes, and everything seems more real.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 months 1 week ago
The Leaders have ever since gone...to...

The Leaders have ever since gone...to propagate the principles of French Levelling and confusion, by which no house is safe from its Servants, and no Officer from his Soldiers, and no State or constitution from conspiracy and insurrection. I will not enter into the baseness and depravity of the System they adopt; but one thing I will remark, that its great Object is not, (as they pretend to delude worthy people to their Ruin) the destruction of all absolute Monarchies, but totally to root out that thing called an Aristocrate or Noblemen and Gentleman.

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Letter to Lord Fitzwilliam (21 November 1791), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 451
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 3 weeks ago
The main importance of Francis Bacon's...

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

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Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt
1 month 6 days ago
The political is the most intense...

The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5 months 1 week ago
There are Plebes in all classes....

There are Plebes in all classes.

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As quoted by Julien Coupat in Interview with Julien Coupat, 2009
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
5 months 1 week ago
One must care about a world...

One must care about a world one will not see.

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Attributed to Russell in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 450, and in Robertson's Dictionary of Quotations (1998), p. 362, but no specific source is given.
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
5 months 1 week ago
With the greater part of rich...

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

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Chapter XI, Part II, p. 202 (See also Thorstein Veblen).
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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
2 months 3 days ago
The so-called communism of capital, that...

The so-called communism of capital, that is, its drive toward an ever more extensive socialization of labor, points ambiguously toward the communism of the multitude.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
5 months 1 week ago
The title wise is, for the...

The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
5 months 1 week ago
Luxury is the opposite of the...

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

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Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 448.
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Horace
Horace
4 months 3 weeks ago
To have good sense…

To have good sense, is the first principle and fountain of writing well.

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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
1 month 3 days ago
I shall take leave to think...

I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.

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Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures (1661) "Seventh Objection"
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 months 4 days ago
America is 100% 18th Century. The...

America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.

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Letter to Ezra Pound
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
5 months 6 days ago
I have always - at least,...

I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death. Psyche

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 month 1 week ago
I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on...

I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the un-offending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe. Although no law you may pass can take prohibitory effect until the first day of the year 1808, yet the intervening period is not too long to prevent by timely notice expeditions which can not be completed before that day.

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Thomas Jefferson's Sixth State of the Union Address
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William Whewell
William Whewell
1 month 6 days ago
The antithesis of 'Sense' & 'Ideas'...

The antithesis of 'Sense' & 'Ideas' is the foundation of the Philosophy of Science. No knowledge can exist without the union, no philosophy without the separation, of these two elements.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
6 months 4 days ago
Junz found revulsion growing strong within...

Junz found revulsion growing strong within him. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
3 months 3 weeks ago
Meditation on the chance which led...

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
2 months 2 days ago
It is hard to see how...

It is hard to see how the discarding of liberal values is going to lead to anything in the long term other than increasing social conflict and ultimately a return to violence as a means of resolving differences.

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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
1 month 6 days ago
A mind that has confronted ruin...

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

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