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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28
And I must speak plainly. If...

And I must speak plainly. If I were a judge, I would have such a poisonous, syphilitic whore tortured by being broken on the wheel and having her veins lacerated, for it is not to be denied what damage such a filthy whore does to young blood, so that it is unspeakably damaged before it is even fully grown and destroyed in the blood.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
How many valiant men we have...

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
See that no man know it....

See that no man know it. 9:30 (KJV) Said to the two blind men.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53
It is not because men's desires...

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
To shoot down a European is...

To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
Life is not so short but...

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
What do I care about Jupiter?...

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:30
Well, some get lucky sometimes...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
Private property has made us so...

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it - when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., - in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property - labour and conversion into capital. In place of all these physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses - the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
I also will ask you one...

I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? 21:24-25 (KJV)

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
Man differs from other animals in...

Man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which can never be fully gratified, and which would keep him restless even in Paradise. The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28
But the other conception, namely the...

But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
The language of excitement is at...

The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 03:51
Of all the means which wisdom...

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
'Tis the good reader that makes...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 03:49
He that is to govern a...

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.

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William James
William James
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49
It makes a tremendous emotional and...

It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
So long as the product is...

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
The life-giving Spirit is the very...

The life-giving Spirit is the very one who slays you; the first thing the life-giving Spirit says is that you must enter into death, that you must die to, it is this way in order that you many not take Christianity in vain. A life-giving Spirit, that is the invitation; who would not willingly take hold of it! But die first, that is the halt!

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
There are those who blame the...

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
It is not death, it is...

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
An early morning walk is a...

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48
Epicurus, the great teacher of happiness,...

Epicurus, the great teacher of happiness, has correctly and finely divided human needs into three classes. First there are the natural and necessary needs which, if they are not satisfied, cause pain. Consequently, they are only victus et amictus [food and clothing] and are easy to satisfy. Then we have those that are natural yet not necessary, that is, the needs for sexual satisfaction. ... These needs are more difficult to satisfy. Finally, there are those that are neither natural nor necessary, the needs for luxury, extravagance, pomp, and splendour, which are without end and very difficult to satisfy.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 01:12
Philosophers should consider the fact that...

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04
I have gained this by philosophy...

I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

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David Hume
David Hume
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42
But though all the general rules...

But though all the general rules of art are founded only on experience and on the observation of the common sentiments of human nature, we must not imagine, that, on every occasion, the feelings of men will be conformable to these rules.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53
The notion that truths external to...

The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, of which the origin is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its own all-sufficient voucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15
The law of nature teaches me...

The law of nature teaches me to speak in my own defence: With respect to this charge of bribery I am as innocent as any man born on St. Innocents Day. I never had a bribe or reward in my eye or thought when pronouncing judgment or order (...). I am ready to make an oblation of myself to the King.

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David Hume
David Hume
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42
I thought that I was the...

I thought that I was the only historian, that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man, who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I and the Earl of Strafford.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
It would be better to have...

It would be better to have no laws at all than to have them in such profusion as we do.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
A Roman emperor sitting at the...

A Roman emperor sitting at the table surrounded by his bodyguard is a magnificent sight, but when the reason is fear, the magnificence pales. So also when the individual does not dare stand taciturnly by his word, does not stand freely and confidently on the pedestal of a conscious act, but is surrounded by a host of deliberations before and after that render him incapable of getting his eye on the action.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15
But by far the greatest obstacle...

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are...

Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06
He begins to think for himself...

He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
Once in his early youth a...

Once in his early youth a man allowed himself to be so far carried away in an overwrought irresponsible state as to visit a prostitute. It is all forgotten. Now he wants to get married. Then anxiety stirs. He is tortured day and night with the thought that he might possibly be a father, that somewhere in the world there could be a created being who owed his life to him. He cannot share his secret with anyone; he does not even have any reliable knowledge of the fact. –For this reason the incident must have involved a prostitute and taken place in the wantonness of youth; had it been a little infatuated or an actual seduction, it would be hard to imagine that he could know nothing about it, but now this this very ignorance is the basis of his agitated torment. On the other hand, precisely because of the rashness of the whole affair, his misgivings do not really start until he actually falls in love.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 23:20
Let us not forget what befits...

Let us not forget what befits our present state in the pursuit of vain fancies. Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare. The rest depends on external forces, which are beyond our control.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28
Now I say this to keep...

Now I say this to keep the conscience free from mischievous laws and fictitious sins, and not because I would defend images. Nor would I condemn those who have destroyed them, especially those who destroy divine and idolatrous images. But images for memorial and witness, such as crucifixes and images of saints, are to be tolerated.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
There is no conversation more boring...

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues,...

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour,...

Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour, and this is reassuring, since the great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one...

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Epicurus
Epicurus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 03:51
Continence is a branch of temperance,...

Continence is a branch of temperance, which prevents the diseases, infamy, remorse, and punishment, to which those are exposed, who indulge themselves in unlawful amours.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the...

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
The objective of all human arrangements...
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
A man contains all that is...

A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befal [sic] him must be from himself. He only can do himself any good or any harm. Nothing can be given to him or can taken from him but always there is a compensation.. There is a correspondence between the human soul and everything that exists in the world; more properly, everything that is known to man. Instead of studying things without the principles of them, all may be penetrated unto with him. Every act puts the agent in a new position. The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live the future as described to him but to live the real future to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
Who is my mother? and who...

Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. 12:48-50 (KJV)

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
When I found myself regarded as...

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection. Interview with Irwin Ross, September 1957;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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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53
My education, which was wholly his...

My education, which was wholly his work, had been conducted without any regard to the possibility of its ending in this result; and I saw no use in giving him the pain of thinking that his plans had failed, when the failure was probably irremediable, and, at all events, beyond the power of his remedies. Of other friends, I had at that time none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible. It was however abundantly intelligible to myself; and the more I dwelt upon it, the more hopeless it appeared.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
There are men who astonish and...

There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44
The spurious axioms of the third...

The spurious axioms of the third kind from conditions proper to the subject whence they are transferred rashly to the object are plentiful, not, as in those of the Second Class, because the only way to the intellectual concept lies through the sensuous data, but because only by aid of the latter can the concept be applied to that which is given by experience, that is, can we know whether something is contained under a certain intellectual concept or not. To this class belongs the threadbare one of the schools: whatever exists contingently does at some time not exist. This spurious principle springs from the poverty of the intellect, having insight frequently into the nominal, rarely into the real, marks of contingency or necessity.

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