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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
I know-as we all do-very little...

I know-as we all do-very little of the practice and the spoken and written doctrine of former times on the subject of non-resistance to evil. I knew what had been said on the subject by the fathers of the Church-Origen, Tertullian, and others-I knew too of the existence of some so-called sects of Mennonites, Herrnhuters, and Quakers, who do not allow a Christian the use of weapons, and do not enter military service; but I knew little of what had been done by these so-called sects toward expounding the question.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 month 5 days ago
Success makes some crimes honorable. Maxim...

Success makes some crimes honorable.

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Maxim 326
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
There is a connected set of...

There is a connected set of events (light-waves) travelling outward from a centre... there are some respects in which all events are alike, and others in which they differ... We must not think of a light-wave as a 'thing', but as a connected group of rhythmical events. The mathematical characteristics of such a group can be inferred by physics, but the intrinsic character of the component events cannot be inferred.

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An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics, 1927
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 4 weeks ago
Listen widely to remove your...

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
If you're certain, you're certainly wrong,...

If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.

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Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 14 (video)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
All movements go...
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 4 weeks ago
It is now generally accepted that...

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about these responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.

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Preface To The 2011 edition, p. xi
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 1 week ago
The bodies of which the world...

The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number, it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood;...

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 264
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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
2 months 1 week ago
To disrespec the masses…

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.

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Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), "Athenaeum Fragments" § 211
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 6 days ago
Advertising is the greatest art form...

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

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quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 1 week ago
In youth it is the outward...

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating quality of the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 4 days ago
When one is not understood one...

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

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Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1988), p. 30
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 1 week ago
One always dies too soon...

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 3 weeks ago
Pleasant it is…

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

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Book II, lines 1-4 (tr. Rouse)
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
1 month 4 weeks ago
With the disintegration of all that...

With the disintegration of all that Nietzsche had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

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p. 45
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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 5 days ago
Pure mathematics…

Pure mathematics is religion.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 4 days ago
Some minds will jump here jump...

Some minds will jump here jump to the conclusion that a past idea cannot in any sense be present. But that is hasty and illogical. How extravagant too, to pronounce our whole knowledge of the past to be mere delusion! Yet it would seem that the past is completely beyond the bounds of possible experience as a Kantian thing-in-itself.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 4 days ago
For you who no longer possess...

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

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Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann
1 week 1 day ago
There is thus a certain plausibility...

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 4 days ago
Only thoughts that are randomly born...

Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
The Bhagavad-Gita is perhaps the most...

The Bhagavad-Gita is perhaps the most systematic scriptural statement of the Perennial Philosophy. To a world at war, a world that, because it lacks the intellectual and spiritual prerequisites to peace, can only hope to patch up some kind of precarious armed truce, it stands pointing, clearly and unmistakably, to the only road of escape from the self-imposed necessity of self-destruction.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
2 months 1 week ago
How many women does one need...

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

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Act I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
What point of morals, of manners,...

What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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Shakespeare; or, The Poet
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
Probably in time physiologists will be...

Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 493
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
The executive of the modern State...

The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

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As quoted in the Communist Manifesto (1848) p. 7
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months ago
Can the children of the bridechamber...

Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

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9:15-17 (KJV)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
To live without duties is obscene....

To live without duties is obscene.

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Aristocracy
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
The march of the human mind...

The march of the human mind is slow.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
At present we are on the...

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
We must have kings, and we...

We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society, - only let us have the real instead of the titular. Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best. In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
3 months 1 week ago
The need of reason is not...

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

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p. 15
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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 4 weeks ago
But the individual butterfly or earthquake...

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

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Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
4 days ago
Agricultural association, which in all ages...

Agricultural association, which in all ages has been deemed impossible, would produce results of unbounded magnificence the rigorous demonstrations, the mathematical calculations by which these results will be verified, will not, however, prevent the picture of the future harmony and happiness which they present from repelling minds habituated to the miseries and wretchedness of our present civilization. The Theory of Social Organization.

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Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier, p. 5.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 1 week ago
I see again what I thought...

I see again what I thought I saw the first time, when I sent forth the little book that was compared to and in fact could best be compared to a humble little flower under the cover of the great forest.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 days ago
The ceremonial (hot or cold) as...

The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 127
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 3 weeks ago
But Zarathustra made it clear in...

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

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p. 158
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
1 month 4 weeks ago
The possibility of peace, on whose...

The possibility of peace, on whose behalf many are working, might perhaps become actual because the technical advances in offensive weapons make the prospect of a European war so disastrous, and because, if the nations were at grips again, even the victorious aggressor would be ruined. But there still remains open the possibility of a new war which, more dreadful than any that have preceded it would make an end of contemporary Europeans.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
2 months 3 days ago
Labour is the source of all...

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.

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The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
Since Adam and Eve ate the...

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.

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Full text of Russell's book History of the World in Epitome , written in 1959
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
Money is not required to buy...

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

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p. 370
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 1 week ago
The principal means of realizing it...

The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.

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p. 153
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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 week ago
When anyone tells me, that he...

When anyone tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

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Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 6 days ago
The most human thing about us...

The most human thing about us is our technology.

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Man and the future of organizations, Volume 5, School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1974, p. 19
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George Santayana
George Santayana
2 months ago
Injustice in this world is not...

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

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Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 3 weeks ago
To the rational being only the...

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

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Variant translation: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. Book I, ch. 2,1.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
But there is a devil of...

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

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Introduction, p. 25.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
No nation was ever so virtuous...

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 70
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Porphyry
Porphyry
2 months 3 weeks ago
The utility of a science which...

The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation. Its searching penetration by definition alone, before which even mathematical precision fails, would especially commend it to those whom the abstruseness of the study does not terrify, and who recognise the valuable results which must attend discipline of mind. Like a medicine, though not a panacea for every ill, it has the health of the mind for its aim, but requires the determination of a powerful will to imbibe its nauseating yet wholesome influence: it is no wonder therefore that puny intellects, like weak stomachs, abhor and reject it.

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Introduction to Aristotle's Organon, as translated by Octavius Freire Owen (1853), p. v
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 3 weeks ago
The jingoes and war speculators are...

The jingoes and war speculators are filling the air with the sentimental slogan of hypocritical nationalism, "America for Americans," "America first, last, and all the time."

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