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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
2 months 1 week ago
Philosophy is not the owl of...

Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
3 months 3 weeks ago
The quest for certainty blocks the...

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

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Ch. 3
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
5 months 1 week ago
The doctrine that there is as...

The doctrine that there is as much science in a subject as... mathematics in it, or as much... measurement or 'precision' in it, rests upon... misunderstanding.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 4 weeks ago
When at the beginning of the...

When at the beginning of the so-called modern age, at the Renaissance, the pagan sense of religion came to life again, it took the concrete form in the knightly ideal with its codes of conduct of love and honor. But it was a paganism Christianized, baptized. "Woman - la donna - was the divinity enshrined within those savage breasts. Whosoever will investigate the memorials of primitive times will find this ideal of woman in its full force and purity; the Universe is woman.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5 months 1 week ago
In immediate self-consciousness the simple ego...

In immediate self-consciousness the simple ego is absolute object, which, however, is for us or in itself absolute mediation, and has as its essential moment substantial and solid independence. The dissolution of that simple unity is the result of the first experience; through this there is posited a pure self-consciousness, and a consciousness which is not purely for itself, but for another, i.e. as an existent consciousness, consciousness in the form and shape of thinghood. Both moments are essential, since, in the first instance, they are unlike and opposed, and their reflexion into unity has not yet come to light, they stand as two opposed forms or modes of consciousness. The one is independent whose essential nature is to be for itself, the other is dependent whose essence is life or existence for another. The former is the Master, or Lord, the latter is the Bondsman.

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Novalis
Novalis
4 months 1 week ago
To romanticize the world is to...

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

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As quoted in "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser, in Philosophers on Education : Historical Perspectives (1998) by Amélie Rorty, p. 294
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
4 months 2 weeks ago
The debates of that great assembly...

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

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Book One, Chapter XXI.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
6 months 1 week ago
There was no denying that he...

There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn't help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
5 months 5 days ago
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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Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 1 week ago
A straightforward, honest person should be...

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it.

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(Hays translation) XI, 15
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2 months 3 weeks ago
So dazzling was the spread of...

So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.

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As quoted in No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2001) by Reeve Lindbergh, p. 41
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Opticks B Or A Treatise Of The Reflections Refractions Inflections And Colours O

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
4 months 6 days ago
There have always been poor and...

There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
6 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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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 month 3 weeks ago
Besides, he who follows….

Besides, he who follows another not only discovers nothing but is not even investigating.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
3 months 2 weeks ago
At the time of its initial...

At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and policy. Without neglecting more traditional concerns with organization structure, Simon, Thompson, and Smithburg viewed administration in its behavioral and political contexts. The viewpoints they express still are at the center of public administration's concerns.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
3 months 3 weeks ago
Man's biological weakness is the condition...

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
3 months 1 week ago
What television does is rent us...

What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. The child watching TV loves these people, you know -- they're in color, and they're talking to the child. Why wouldn't a child relate to these people? And you know, if you can't sleep at 3 o'clock in the morning, you can turn on a switch, and there are your friends and relatives, and they obviously like you. And they're charming. Who wouldn't want Peter Jennings for a relative? This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house.

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Interviewed by Frank Houston, "The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut", Salon
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
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He who has injured….

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

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De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
2 months 5 days ago
When an astronomer tells me that...

When an astronomer tells me that some stellar phenomenon, which his telescope reveals to him at this moment, happened... fifty years ago... I... ask... how he has measured the velocity of light.

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Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
5 months 1 day ago
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming...

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

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Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
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Voltaire
Voltaire
5 months 1 week ago
He advanced toward me without moving...

He advanced toward me without moving his hat, or making the least inclination of his body; but there appeared more real politeness in the open, humane air of his countenance, than in drawing one leg behind the other, and carrying that in the hand which is made to be worn on the head. "Friend," said he, "I perceive thou art a stranger, if I can do thee any service thou hast only to let me know it." "Sir," I replied, bowing my body, and sliding one leg toward him, as is the custom with us, "I flatter myself that my curiosity, which you will allow to be just, will not give you any offence, and that you will do me the honor to inform me of the particulars of your religion." "The people of thy country," answered the Quaker, "are too full of their bows and their compliments; but I never yet met with one of them who had so much curiosity as thyself. Come in and let us dine first together."

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Voltaire's account of meeting the Quaker Andrew Pit
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
5 months 1 week ago
Only in thought is man a...

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

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Letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 1 week ago
Ideas should be neutral. But man...

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
5 months 1 week ago
The proper study of mankind is...

The proper study of mankind is books.

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Ch. XXVIII
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Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
1 month 3 weeks ago
The de-eroticization of the world, a...

The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes-our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 month 1 week ago
It is not by the consolidation...

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

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Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1829) edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, p. 70
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
6 months 1 week ago
Start with a planet like the...

Start with a planet like the earth, with a complement of simple compounds bound to exist upon it, add the energy of a nearby sun, and you are bound to end with nucleic acids. You can't avoid it.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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An unexciting truth....
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David Pearce
David Pearce
2 months 2 weeks ago
By far my greatest dread in...

By far my greatest dread in life [...] is that (some variant of) the Everett interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is true. Dave's Diary, BLTC Research, May 1996

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 1 week ago
They ask you for facts, proofs,...

They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 months 1 week ago
That what we seek we shall...

That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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Fate
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John Locke
John Locke
5 months 1 week ago
A father would do well, as...

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in. For it is easy to observe, that many young men continue longer in thought and conversation of school-boys than otherwise they would, because their parents keep them at that distance, and in that low rank, by all their carriage to them.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 months 1 week ago
I owed a magnificent day to...

I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.

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October 1, 1848
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
2 months 5 days ago
The mathematician is born, not made.

The mathematician is born, not made.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 months 2 days ago
I plead guilty to valuing such...

I plead guilty to valuing such a man beyond all other sorts of men. Smooth-shaven Respectabilities not a few one finds, that are not good for much. Small thanks to a man for keeping his hands clean, who would not touch the work but with gloves on!

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 1 week ago
The reasons for persisting in Being...

The reasons for persisting in Being seem less and less well founded, and our successors will find it easier than we to be rid of such obstinacy.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
4 months 1 week ago
Thus far, gentlemen, I have been...

Thus far, gentlemen, I have been insisting very strenuously upon what the most vulgar common sense has every disposition to assent to and only ingenious philosophers have been able to deceive themselves about. But now I come to a category which only a more refined form of common sense is prepared willingly to allow, the category which of the three is the chief burden of Hegel's song, a category toward which the studies of the new logico-mathematicians, Georg Cantor and the like, are steadily pointing, but to which no modern writer of any stripe, unless it be some obscure student like myself, has ever done anything approaching to justice.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, §3. Laws: Nominalism, CP 5.59
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
6 months 1 week ago
Necessity makes a joke of civilization....

Necessity makes a joke of civilization.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 months 3 days ago
Of all Discourse, governed by desire...

Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.

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The First Part, Chapter 7, p. 30
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 1 week ago
You may break your heart, but...

You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.

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VIII, 4
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 months 3 weeks ago
Rituals are processes of embodiment and...

Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
6 months 1 week ago
When a war breaks out, people...

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though the war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Sadism is plainly connected with the...

Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 1 week ago
How easy it is to repel...

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility. To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 4 weeks ago
The greatest height of heroism to...

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.

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