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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
3 weeks 5 days ago
I have lived an honest and...

I have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has been spend in doing good and I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 weeks ago
With a foolish man make no...

With a foolish man make no dispute.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 weeks 6 days 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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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 weeks 3 days ago
Assembled in a crowd, people lose...

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
The next day as they were...

The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it. The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry. After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Mark 11:12-14 11:12-14

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 2 days ago
By God's grace, I know Satan...

By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?

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David Hume
David Hume
4 weeks ago
... no testimony is sufficient to...

... no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 weeks ago
Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people...

Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 weeks 4 days ago
I am as firmly convinced that...

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 weeks 4 days ago
Men tend to have the beliefs...

Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 weeks 6 days ago
Percepts and phenomena which precedes the...

Percepts and phenomena which precedes the logical use of the intellect is called appearance, while the reflex knowledge originating from several appearances compared by the intellect is called experience.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 weeks 5 days ago
If a lion could talk, we...

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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Horace
Horace
2 weeks ago
The man who is tenacious….

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 3 weeks ago
The dullness of fact is the...

The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
3 weeks 6 days ago
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais. Translation: The...

The offender never forgives.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 weeks 4 days ago
I heartily accept the motto, "That...

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

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Porphyry
Porphyry
1 week 1 day ago
Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed...

Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united, and proceed into a simultaneous subsistence, through exuberance of power.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
3 weeks 2 days ago
As for Adler, I was much...

As for Adler, I was much impressed by a personal experience. Once, in 1919, I reported to him a case which to me did not seem particularly Adlerian, but which he found no difficulty in analyzing in terms of his theory of inferiority feelings, although he had not even seen the child. Slightly shocked, I asked him how he could be so sure. "Because of my thousandfold experience," he replied; whereupon I could not help saying: "And with this new case, I suppose, your experience has become thousand-and-one-fold."

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
3 weeks 6 days ago
Our island is this earth; and...

Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 weeks 4 days ago
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance...

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 weeks 2 days ago
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity....

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 3 weeks ago
So true....understanding....
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 weeks 4 days ago
It would be worth the while...

It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
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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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
1 month 3 weeks ago
Freedom's possibility is not the ability...

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into actuality. However, in actuality it is not so convenient, and an intermediate term is required. The intermediate term is anxiety, but it no more explains the qualitative leap than it can justify it ethically. Anxiety is neither a category of necessity nor a category of freedom; it is entangled freedom, where freedom is not free in itself but entangled, not by necessity, but in itself.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 2 days 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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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
2 weeks 5 days ago
Nevertheless, among all the temptations I...

Nevertheless, among all the temptations I will have to resist today. There would be the temptation of memory: to recount what was for me, and for those of my generation who shared it during a whole lifetime. The experience of Marxism. The quasi-paternal figure of Marx, the way it fought in us with other filiations, the reading of texts and the interpretation of a world in which the Marxist inheritance was-and still remains, and so it will remain-absolutely and thoroughly determinate. One need not be a Marxist or a communist in order to accept this obvious fact. We all live in a world, some would say a culture, that still bears, at an incalculable depth, the mark of this inheritance, whether in a directly visible fashion or not.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 3 days ago
The soul is subject to dollars....

The soul is subject to dollars.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 days ago
And not to serve for a...

And not to serve for a table-talk.

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Plato
Plato
1 month 3 weeks ago
Dear Pan and all the...

Socrates: Dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. Do we need anything more, Phaedrus? For me that prayer is enough. Phaedrus: Let me also share in this prayer; for friends have all things in common.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 1 week ago
In this one man, the whole...

In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks 1 day ago
Desire, to know why, and how,...

Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
2 weeks ago
Every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected...

Every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective physical theory will abandon that point of view.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
2 weeks ago
Virtue is the same…

Virtue is the same for a man and for a woman.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 weeks 6 days ago
Christianity possesses the great advantage over...

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 2 weeks ago
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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William James
William James
3 weeks 3 days ago
Pretend what we may, the whole...

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 3 days ago
Standing on the bare ground, -...

Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks 1 day ago
And in these foure things, Opinion...

And in these foure things, Opinion of Ghosts, Ignorance of second causes, Devotion towards what men fear, and Taking of things Casuall for Prognostics, consisteth the Natural seed of Religion; which by reason of the different Fancies, Judgements, and Passions of severall men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 3 days ago
I regard it as the irresistible...

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible.

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William James
William James
3 weeks 3 days ago
We have ...as M. Ribot says,...

We have ...as M. Ribot says, not memory so much as memories. The visual... tactile... muscular... auditory memory may all vary independently... and different individuals may have them developed in different degrees. As a rule, a man's memory is good in the departments in which his interest is strong; but those departments are apt to be those in which his discriminative sensibility is high. ...[D]ifferences in men's imagining power... the machinery of memory must be largely determined thereby.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 weeks 4 days ago
There is only one inborn erroneous...

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 weeks 5 days ago
Money is always to be found….

Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 weeks 3 days ago
Communism is for us not a...

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
1 month 1 week ago
If what the philosophers say be...

If what the philosophers say be true,—that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 3 days ago
Let me never fall into the...

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 weeks 3 days ago
What would we really know the...

What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law; and the shop, the plough, and the ledger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; - and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order; there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 weeks 2 days ago
"Their own strength has betrayed them....

"Their own strength has betrayed them. They have [...] pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads."

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Lucretius
Lucretius
1 month 1 week ago
Yes, to seek power….

Yes, to seek power that's vain and never grantedand for it to suffer hardship and endless pain:this is to heave and strain to push uphilla boulder, that still from the very top rolls backand bounds and bounces down to the bare, broad field.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 weeks 1 day ago
Although longer experience may have lent...

Although longer experience may have lent some older members of these bands some authority, it was mainly shared aims and perceptions that coordinated the activities of their members. These modes of coordination depended decisively on instincts of solidarity and altruism - instincts applying to the members of one's own group but not to others. The members of these small groups could thus exist only as such: an isolated man would soon have been a dead man. The primitive individualism described by Thomas Hobbes is hence a myth. The savage is not solitary, and his instinct is collectivist. There was never a 'war of all against all'. Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit (1988), Ch. 1 : Between Instinct and Reason

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