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Marshall McLuhan
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By electricity we have not been...

By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us.

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(p. 375)
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
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The loss which is unknown is...

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

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Maxim 38
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 1 week ago
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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Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 4, 694
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 3 days ago
This final aim is God's purpose...

This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself.

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Boethius
Boethius
2 months 3 weeks ago
Music is associated not only with...

Music is associated not only with speculation but with morality. When rhythms and modes reach an intellect through the ear, they doubtless affect and reshape that mind according to their particular character.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 4 days ago
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other...

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
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The space of early Greek cosmology...

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

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p. 35
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
4 weeks 1 day ago
Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it...

Every interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. An obscure dream, taken by itself, can rarely be interpreted with any certainty, so that I attach little importance to the interpretation of single dreams. With a series of dreams we can have more confidence in our interpretations, for the later dreams correct the mistakes we have made m handling those that went before. We are also better able, in a dream series, to recognize the important contents and basic themes.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
1 month 2 weeks ago
Agesilaus was very fond of his...

Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

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Of Agesilaus the Great
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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Armies are necessary, before all things,...

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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Chapter VII, Significance of Compulsory Service
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 weeks 4 days ago
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied;...

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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p. 120
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the...

Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the sufferings of Christians have tended to their moral improvement, because they viewed them with eyes of faith.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 3 days ago
To understand oneself in existence is...

To understand oneself in existence is the Christian principle, except that this self has received much richer and much more profound qualifications that are even more difficult to understand together with existing. The believer is a subjective thinker, and the difference, is only between the simple person and the simple wise person. Here again the oneself is not humanity in general, subjectivity in general, and other such things, whereas everything becomes easy inasmuch as the difficulty is removed and the whole matter is shifted over into the shadow play of abstraction.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 weeks 4 days ago
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists:...

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

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pp. 48-49
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Not only does democracy make every...

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

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Book Two, Chapter II.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 5 days ago
A on his lips and not-A...

A on his lips and not-A in his heart.

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E 95
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 weeks 1 day ago
It is debasing to die the...

It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 1 week ago
We are wont to call that...

We are wont to call that human reasoning which we apply to Nature the anticipation of Nature (as being rash and premature) and that which is properly deduced from things the interpretation of Nature.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 5 days ago
Many things about our bodies would...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 1 week ago
...so it is with human reason,...

...so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

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On Justification CCXCIV
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 1 day ago
Never aim at more precision than......

Never aim at more precision than... required by the problem...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 days ago
Write it on your heart that...

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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Works and Days
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
4 weeks 1 day ago
Understand me well. My appeal is...

Understand me well. My appeal is to observation - observation that each of you must make for himself.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 2 : Struggle, CP 5.53
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Parmenides
Parmenides
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It is indifferent to me where...

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

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Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, Commentary on the Parmenides, 708
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
2 weeks 4 days ago
The bastard form of mass….

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions-these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

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Modern, in The Pleasure of the Text
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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 weeks 3 days ago
Surrender of individuality by the many...

Surrender of individuality by the many to someone who is taken to be a superindividual explains the retrograde movement of society. Dictatorships and totalitarian states, and belief in the inevitability of this or that result coming to pass are, strange as it may sound, ways of denying the reality of time and the creativeness of the individual.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 2 weeks ago
God is surrounded with people full...

God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 days ago
A man can live and be...

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

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Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 weeks 1 day ago
Isn't history ultimately the result of...

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
4 weeks 1 day ago
The idea does not belong to...

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

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Vol. I, par. 216
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bell hooks
bell hooks
2 weeks 2 days ago
In classroom settings I have often...

In classroom settings I have often listened to groups of students tell me that racism really no longer shapes the contours of our lives, that there is no such thing as racial difference, that "we are all just people." Then a few minutes later I give them an exercise. I ask if they were about to die and could choose to come back as a white male, a white female, a black female, or a black male, which identity would they choose. Each time I do this exercise, most individuals, irrespective of gender or race invariably choose whiteness, and most often male whiteness. Black females are the least chosen. When I ask students to explain their choice they proceed to do a sophisticated analysis of privilege based on race (with perspectives that take gender and class into consideration).

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Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 weeks 4 days ago
Concern for the symbol has completely...

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

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The Need for Roots (1949), p. 292
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 days ago
The African [slave] trade was, in...

The African [slave] trade was, in his opinion, an absolute robbery. It therefore could not be a doubt with the House, whether it was proper to abolish it.

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Speech in the House of Commons (12 May 1789), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXVIII (1816), column 96
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 5 days ago
Human freedom is realised in the...

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end.

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Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 days ago
Philosophy is to be studied, not...

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
A little folly is desirable in...

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

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Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months ago
A robot, the man had said,...

A robot, the man had said, is logical but not reasonable.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 days ago
The two parties which divide the...

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

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Via Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cycles of American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 23
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 days ago
Every man is a new method....

Every man is a new method.

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"The Natural History of Intellect", p. 28
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Nothing can contribute more to peace...

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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E 11
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 4 days ago
All philosophical sects…

All philosophical sects have run aground on the reef of moral and physical ill. It only remains for us to confess that God, having acted for the best, had not been able to do better.

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"Power, Omnipotence," Dictionnaire philosophique, 1785-1789
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 weeks 1 day ago
Is the child to be considered...

Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be the most important question to be answered by parents and educators. And whether the child is to grow from within, whether all that craves expression will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day; or whether it is to be kneaded like dough through external forces, depends upon the proper answer to this vital question.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 4 days ago
To be a philosopher, that is...

To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to love truth, in so far as it is compatible with his own interest, with the will of his superiors, with the dogmas of the church, or with the prejudices and tastes of his contemporaries; so long as he rests content with this position, he is only a philautos, not a philosophos [a lover of self, not a lover of wisdom]. For this title of honor is well and wisely conceived precisely by its stating that one should love the truth earnestly and with one's whole heart, and thus unconditionally and unreservedly, above all else, and, if need be, in defiance of all else. Now the reason for this is the one previously stated that the intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.

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E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, pp. 21-22
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 1 week ago
People don't stop...
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 3 days ago
Early and provident fear is the...

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

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Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 4 days ago
A minister of state…

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Le Siècle de Louis XIV, ch. VI: "État de la France jusqu'à la mort du cardinal Mazarin en 1661" (1752)
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 6 days ago
The miracle of analysis….

This miracle of analysis, this marvel of the world of ideas, an almost amphibian object between Being and Non-being that we call the imaginary number.

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Quoted in Singularités : individus et relations dans le système de Leibniz (2003) by Christiane Frémont
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
Jews are angry and brutish people,...

Jews are angry and brutish people, vile and vulgar men, slaves worthy of the yoke [Talmudism] which you bear... Go, take back your books and remove yourselves from me. [ The Talmud ] taught the Jews to steal the goods of Christians, to regard them as savage beasts, to push them over the precipice... to kill them with impunity and to utter every morning the most horrible imprecations against them.

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See The Jews: A History, Second Edition, by John Efron, Steven Weitzman and Matthias Lehmann
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 weeks 1 day ago
"What's wrong - what's the matter...

"What's wrong - what's the matter with you?" Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for...

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 weeks 5 days ago
All of this that is happening...

All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us?

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