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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 weeks 2 days ago
The natural impulse of the primitive...

The natural impulse of the primitive man to strike back, to avenge a wrong, is out of date. Instead, the civilized man, stripped of courage and daring, has delegated to an organized machinery the duty of avenging his wrongs, in the foolish belief that the State is justified in doing what he no longer has the manhood or consistency to do.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
It is Christ Himself, not the...

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

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Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 1 week ago
My Lord St. Albans said that...

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 day ago
Each of our senses makes its...

Each of our senses makes its own space, but no sense can function in isolation. Only as sight relates the touch, or kinaesthesia, or sound, can the eye see.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 days ago
People seem not to see that...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Worship
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 days ago
I know only one Church: it...

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

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Act 1
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 days ago
The hopes which inspire communism are,...

The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.

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Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 2 days ago
There is only one way to...

There is only one way to science-or to philosophy... to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it, and to live with it happily, till death do ye part-unless you should meet another... more fascinating problem, or... obtain a solution. But even if you do... you may... discover, to your delight, the... a whole family of enchanting... perhaps difficult problem children for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days.

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William James
William James
2 months 3 days ago
The moral flabbiness born of the...

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.

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To H. G. Wells, 9/11/1906
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 weeks ago
The confession of evil works is...

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Tractates on the Gospel of John; tractate XII on John 3:6-21, and 13
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
We must not attach knowledge to...

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

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Ch. 25
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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
1 month 4 days 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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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

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God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
What is called an acute knowledge...

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
'God!' said the Ghost, glancing around...

God!' said the Ghost, glancing around the landscape. 'God what?' asked the Spirit. 'What do you mean, "God what"?' asked the Ghost. 'In our grammar God is a noun' said the Spirit.

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Ch. 9
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
There are people who possess not...

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 2 weeks ago
As to the objection that these...

As to the objection that these rules are common in the world, that it is necessary to define every thing and to prove every thing, and that logicians themselves have placed them among their art, I would that the thing were true and that it were so well known... But so little is this the case, that, geometricians alone excepted, who are so few in number that they are a single in a whole nation and long periods of time, we see no others that know it.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months ago
I may not have been sure...

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
3 weeks 4 days ago
Individuality, conceived as a temporal development...

Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is the source of whatever is unpredictable in the world.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
6 days ago
Not only does reality resist those...

Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 weeks 6 days ago
Fe que no duda es fe...

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity)
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 1 day ago
The spirit of Poesy is the...

The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 6 days ago
...an intellectual concept abstracts from everything...

...an intellectual concept abstracts from everything sensuous, it is not abstracted from sensuous things, and perhaps would be more correctly called abstracting than abstract. Intellectual concepts it is more cautious, therefore, to call pure ideas, and concepts given only empirically, abstract ideas.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 4 weeks ago
Not only must people know, they...

Not only must people know, they must see with their own eyes. Because they must be made to be afraid; but also because they must be the witnesses, the guarantors, of the punishment, and because they must to a certain extent take part in it.

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Chapter One, pp.58
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Novalis
Novalis
1 month 1 day ago
Every beloved object is the center...

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

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Fragment No. 51; Jeder geliebte Gegenstand ist der Mittelpunkt eines Paradieses. Variant translations:
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 week 5 days ago
Decision making processes are aimed at...

Decision making processes are aimed at finding courses of action that are feasible or satisfactory in the light of multiple goals and constraints.

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p. 274.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 weeks 1 day ago
When you get over an infatuation,...

When you get over an infatuation, to fall for someone ever again seems so inconceivable that you imagine no one, not even a bug, that is not mired in disappointment.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 4 days ago
I needed to be made to...

I needed to be made to feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this, not only without turning away from, but with a greatly increased interest in the common feelings and common destiny of human beings.

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(p. 148)
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
The doctrine of the Second Coming...

The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 4 days ago
In a social order dominated by...

In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.

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Vol. III, Ch. I, Cost Price and Profit, p. 39.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 month 4 weeks ago
The will to the...

The will to the "true world" in the sense of Plato and Christianity ... is in truth a no-saying to our present world, precisely the one in which art is at home.

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p. 74
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 2 days ago
This is the Outsider's extremity. He...

This is the Outsider's extremity. He does not prefer not to believe; he doesn't like feeling that futility gets the last word in the universe; his human nature would like to find something it can answer to with complete assent. But honesty prevents his accepting a solution that he cannot reason about.

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Chapter Five, The Pain Threshold
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 weeks 2 days ago
Disciplinary society is still governed by...

Disciplinary society is still governed by no. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement society creates depressives and losers.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 day ago
Does the interiorization of media such...

Does the interiorization of media such as letters alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes?

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
1 month 3 weeks ago
I have enough to eat till...

I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?

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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 4 days ago
It is well said, then, that...

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 weeks 2 days ago
Sexual activity is driven by the...

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

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p. 75
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 4 days ago
That man is the richest whose...

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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March 11, 1856
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 weeks 2 days ago
When, in the course of human...

When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 month 3 days ago
Just as when a man commits...

Just as when a man commits suicide ne negates the body, this rational limit of subjectivity, so when he lapses into fantastic and trascendental practice he associates himself with embodied divine and ghostly appearances, namely, he negates in practise the difference between imagination and perception.

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Part III, Section 29
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 3 days ago
Pure justice....

Pure justice emerges from symmetry applied human life, and human beings as ends in themselves.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 3 days ago
An act of the mind of...

An act of the mind of which we are conscious, as such, is called freedom. An act without consciousness of action is called spontaneity. I by no means assume as necessary any immediate consciousness of the act, but merely, that on subsequent reflection thou shouldst perceive it to be an act. The higher question of what it is that prevents any such state of indecision, or any consciousness of the act, we may perhaps subsequently be able to solve. This act of the mind is called thought and it is said that thought is a spontaneous act, to distinguish it from sensation, in which the mind is merely receptive and passive.

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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 44
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 5 days ago
Basic justice is...
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Just now
Atheists have the intellectual courage to...

Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is: wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you're ever going to get: to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best finally to leave it better than you found it.

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The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism
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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 1 week ago
The sentiments of men often differ...

The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same ... In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 1 week ago
'Tis from the resemblance of the...

Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one step farther, will make us conclude that since our internal actions resemble each other, the causes, from which they are deriv'd, must also be resembling.

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Part 3, Section 16
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
2 months 1 week ago
I have resolved to demonstrate by...

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

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Ch. 1, Introduction
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
5 days ago
My theory is that all women...

My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.

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On difficulties with women, as quoted in "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84" by Dinitia Smith in The New York Times
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 1 day ago
Economics is on the side of...

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
6 days ago
This world wants to be childish...

This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere-that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 13
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