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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
People who live in society have...

People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?

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Diary entry of Friday (2 February)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 2 weeks ago
Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and...

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
3 weeks 1 day ago
That children dream not the first...

That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams out of the Ivory gate, and visions before midnight.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 2 weeks ago
Between God and man there is...

Between God and man there is and remains an eternal, essential, qualitative difference. The paradoxical relationship (which, quite rightly, cannot be thought, but only believed) appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority, in relation, be it carefully noted, to that which has entrusted to him.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 5 days ago
I find in myself as much...

I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action - mother of all vices - I am the cause of no one's suffering.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 5 days ago
To live in a saint's heart?...

To live in a saint's heart? I'm afraid of setting the sky ablaze.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 day ago
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions...

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

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p. 259.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 2 weeks ago
Let the punishments of criminals…

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

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"Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws," Dictionnaire philosophique (1785-1789)
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
2 months 4 days ago
Charity, by which God and neighbor...

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

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Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
3 weeks ago
The wisest among us is very...

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

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Ceci n'est pas un conte [This Is No Tale] (1796),
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
You know how much I admire...

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

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As quoted in Marianne Alexandre (ed.), !Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 1968
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 weeks ago
Ah! why do women condescend to...

Ah! why do women condescend to receive a degree of attention and respect from strangers different from that reciprocation of civility which the dictates of humanity and the politeness of civilization authorize between man and man? And why do they not discover, when, "in the noon of beauty's power", that they are treated like queens only to be deluded by hollow respect. Confined, then, in cages like the feathered race, they have nothing to do but to plume themselves, and stalk with mock majesty from perch to perch.

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Ch. 4
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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 2 weeks ago
[...] men are not astonish'd at...

[...] men are not astonish'd at the operations of their own reason, at the same time, that they admire the instinct of animals, and find a difficulty in explaining it, merely because it cannot be reduc'd to the very same principles. [...] reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls[.]

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Part 3, Section 16
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John Rawls
John Rawls
1 month 2 weeks ago
Greater intelligence, wealth and opportunity, for...

Greater intelligence, wealth and opportunity, for example, allow a person to achieve ends he could not rationally contemplate otherwise.

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Chapter II, Section 15, pg. 93
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 2 weeks ago
The science of religion is one...

The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 2 weeks 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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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 2 weeks ago
Truth is a shining goddess, always...

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

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Fact and Fiction (1961), Part II, Ch. 10: "University Education", p. 153
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 2 weeks ago
If you have hitherto believed that...
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 weeks 2 days ago
I take as my example the...

I take as my example the three notorious words, Humanity, Popularity, and Liberality. When these words are used in speaking to a German who has learnt no language but his own they are to him nothing but a meaningless noise, which has no relationship of sound to remind him of anything he knows already and so takes him completely out of his circle of observation and beyond any observation possible to him. ... Further, if in speaking to the German, instead of the words Popularity [Popularitdt] and Liberality [Liberalitat], I should use the expressions, " striving for favour with the great mob," and " not having the mind of a slave," which is how they must be literally translated, he would, to begin with, not even obtain a clear and vivid sense-image such as was certainly obtained by a Roman of old.

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The Chief Difference Between The Germans And The Other Peoples Of Teutonic Descent p. 64
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
4 weeks ago
As long as Man continues to...

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

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Attribution to Pythagoras by Ovid, as quoted in The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (1985) by Jon Wynne-Tyson, p. 260; also in Vegetarian Times, No. 168 (August 1991), p. 4
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 2 weeks ago
Poetry must be new as foam,...

Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

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March 1845
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
The world is sacred because it...

The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us.

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p. 280
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 2 weeks ago
Do not be too moral. You...

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 177
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
1 month 6 days ago
Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either...

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

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Stobaeus, iv. 31c. 88
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 2 weeks ago
"And yet, it was not, not...

"And yet, it was not, not now, she that really counted. Or if she counted (and, oh, gloriously she did) it was for another's sake. The earth and stars and sun, all that was or will be, existed for his sake. And he was coming. The most dreadful, the most beautiful, the only dread and beauty there is, was coming. The pillars on the far side of the pool flushed with his approach. I cast down my eyes."

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Orual
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Jesus
Jesus
1 week 2 days ago
Go thy way; and as thou...

Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.

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8:13 (KJV) Said to the officer.
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
4 weeks ago
All things are full…

All things are full of gods.

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As quoted in Aristotle, De Anima, 411a
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
3 weeks 2 days ago
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which...

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

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As translated by Arthur Imerti
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 2 weeks ago
How many people ruin themselves by...

How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility? What pleases these lovers of toys is not so much the utility, as the aptness of the machines which are fitted to promote it. All their pockets are stuffed with little conveniences. They contrive new pockets, unknown in the clothes of other people, in order to carry a greater number. They walk about loaded with a multitude of baubles, in weight and sometimes in value not inferior to an ordinary Jew's-box, some of which may sometimes be of some little use, but all of which might at all times be very well spared, and of which the whole utility is certainly not worth the fatigue of bearing the burden.

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Chap. I.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 3 weeks ago
The oldest and best known evil...

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

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Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
2 months 2 days ago
My mother spoke of Christ to...

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 351
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 6 days ago
When a country is well...

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
3 days ago
There is only one thing that...

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 months 2 weeks ago
Lenin saying things that seem true....
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 week 2 days ago
For thought and speech are of...

For thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function - thus it depends on those who control these requirements.

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p. 128
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 weeks 3 days ago
I have never in my life...

I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.

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Part 4, Chapter 8
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
3 weeks ago
If there ever are great revolutions...

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.

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Book Three, Chapter XXI.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1 month 3 weeks ago
Time, which is the author of...

Time, which is the author of authors.

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Book I, iv, 12
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
3 weeks ago
If exclusive privileges were not granted,...

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

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Article on Wealth
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
I have no need for good...

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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Electra to her brother Orestes, Act 2
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 weeks ago
A penny saved is of more...

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

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What Luther Says, Section on "Life, Human," No. 2438. Rules for a Thrifty Life. 2, p. 784
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
1 week ago
Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled...

Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled together, men march without Thou and without I, those of the left who want to abolish memory, and those of the right who want to regulate it: hostile and separated hosts, they march into the common abyss.

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p. 33
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 3 days ago
Prejudice is of ready application in...

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

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Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
2 weeks 3 days ago
Before either of us knew it,...

Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 2 weeks ago
All true metaphysics is taken from...

All true metaphysics is taken from the essential nature of the thinking faculty itself, and therefore in nowise invented, since it is not borrowed from experience, but contains the pure operations of thought, that is, conceptions and principles à priori, which the manifold of empirical presentations first of all brings into legitimate connection, by which it can become empirical knowledge, i.e. experience. ...mathematical physicists were thus quite unable to dispense with such metaphysical principles...

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Preface, Tr. Bax, 1883
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 2 weeks ago
Whoever has overthrown an existing law...
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 2 weeks ago
Capitalist production does not exist at...

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

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Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 474 (See also...David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Ch. VII, p. 81).
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 days ago
At the bottom of the heart...

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.

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p. 51
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 day ago
The deliberate aim at Peace very...

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

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p. 284.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 5 days ago
To make more plans than an...

To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.

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