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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is ugly to be punishable,...

It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing. Hence the double system of protection that justice has set up between itself and the punishment it imposes.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 weeks ago
It seems to me that, in...

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

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Conversation of 1934
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 4 weeks ago
They are in bad faith -...

They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.

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Act 1
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William James
William James
3 months 4 weeks ago
Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks...

Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"

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Lecture VI, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 months 1 week ago
I do not regard the late...

I do not regard the late Carl Sagan as any kind of authority. On the contrary, as this book will show, I regard him in many ways as a dubious publicity seeker and careerist, more concerned to maintain his reputation as the brilliant and sceptical representative of hard-headed science than to look squarely and honestly at the facts.

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In short, a bit of a crook. pp. xix-xx
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
2 months 1 week ago
The student of the history of...

The student of the history of progressive thought is well aware that every idea in its early stages has been misrepresented, and the adherents of such ideas have been maligned and persecuted...The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. If, then, from time immemorial, the New has met with opposition and condemnation, why should my beliefs be exempt from a crown of thorns?

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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 month 1 week ago
Too many of our preferences reflect...

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

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The Abolitionist Project, Talks given at the FHI (Oxford University) and the Charity International Happiness Conference, 2007
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 weeks ago
We are no longer instinctively driven...

We are no longer instinctively driven to apprehend, and lay to heart, what is Good and Lovely, but rather to inquire, as onlookers, how it is produced, whence it comes, whither it goes. Our favourite Philosophers have no love and no hatred; they stand among us not to do, nor to create anything, but as a sort of Logic mills, to grind out the true causes and effects of all that is done and created.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 2 weeks ago
Many politicians of our time are...

Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed have to wait forever.

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p. 42
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 3 weeks ago
Great and enduring civilizations like those...

Great and enduring civilizations like those of the Hindus and the Chinese were built upon this foundation and developed from it a discipline of self-knowledge which they brought to a high pitch of refinement both in philosophy and practice.

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Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul. quoted in Hindu Culture, K. Guru Dutt, and quoted in Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months ago
Men are what their mothers made...

Men are what their mothers made them.

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Fate
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
3 months 2 weeks ago
It's better to fight….

It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.

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§ 5
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months ago
A dog cannot relate his autobiography;...

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months ago
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by...

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being
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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 1 day ago
Don't think money does everything or...

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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bell hooks
bell hooks
2 months 1 week ago
To counter the fixation on a...

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 4 weeks ago
He came in sight of a...

He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. 'you cannot pass ... Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? ... Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.'

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Pilgrim's Regress 44-45
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Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
3 weeks 4 days ago
Nowhere is there more constancy and...

Nowhere is there more constancy and more unanimity than among the French to subordinate that sex which they pretend to honor so highly.

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The Theory of Social Organization
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 4 weeks ago
Enough had been thought, and said,...

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 months 1 day ago
There are two things which make...

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

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"On the Sufferings of the World"
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
4 months 2 weeks ago
He who created us without our...

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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St. Augustine, Sermo 169, 11, 13: PL 38, 923 as quoted in Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S. J.. Saved: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics (p. 15). Our Sunday Visitor. Kindle Edition.
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 months 2 weeks ago
The philosophical anthropologist ... can know...

The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.

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p. 148
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 2 days ago
Reason, if consulted with, would advise,...

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

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Sec. 94
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months 2 days ago
Good and strong will. Mechanism must...

Good and strong will. Mechanism must precede science (learning). Also in morals and religion? Too much discipline makes one narrow and kills proficiency. Politeness belongs, not to discipline, but to polish, and thus comes last.

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Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 9
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 2 weeks ago
If all men...

If all men, by the act of being born, are destined to suffer violence, that is a truth to which the empire of circumstances closes their minds.

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in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 163
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John Searle
John Searle
2 months 2 days ago
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there...

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

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The Rediscovery of the Mind, p. 97, MIT Press (1992) ISBN 0-262-69154-X.
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John Locke
John Locke
4 months 2 days ago
It is one thing to show...

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

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Book IV, Ch. 7, sec. 11
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
2 months 2 days ago
Simulation is no longer that of...

Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is a generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 1
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 3 weeks ago
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 weeks ago
And so in City after City,...

And so in City after City, street-barricades are piled, and truculent, more or less murderous insurrection begins; populace after populace rises, King after King capitulates or absconds; and from end to end of Europe Democracy has blazed up explosive, much higher, more irresistible and less resisted than ever before; testifying too sadly on what a bottomless volcano, or universal powder-mine of most inflammable mutinous chaotic elements, separated from us by a thin earth-rind, Society with all its arrangements and acquirements everywhere, in the present epoch, rests! The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions-students, young men of letters, advocates, editors, hot inexperienced enthusiasts, or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame,-might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch. Never till now did young men, and almost children, take such a command in human affairs.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 months 2 weeks ago
I am a utilitarian. I am...

I am a utilitarian. I am also a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian because I am a utilitarian.

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Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 9(4): 325 (1980).
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nothing could be more natural than...

Nothing could be more natural than the developement of the passions, nor more striking than the views of the human heart. What delicate struggles! and uncommonly pretty turns of thought!

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Mary: A Fiction
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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
3 months 3 weeks ago
Technically speaking, since our complex societies...

Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

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Habermas (2004) in: Giovanna Borradori (2004) Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. p. 34
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 3 weeks ago
In allem Chaos ist Kosmos und...

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

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p. 32 (1981 edition) Originally presented at an Eranos conference.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Just now
In religions which have lost their...

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

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Ch. 12
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Alan Watts
Alan Watts
1 week 3 days ago
Buddhism ... is not a culture...

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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p. 7
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
2 months 2 weeks ago
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence....

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

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John Cumming trans., p. 7
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Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
1 week 3 days ago
Students have powerful images of what...

Students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image of a perfect soul, and hence do not long to have one.

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p. 67.
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
As long as I live I...

As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 3 weeks ago
We can hope that the ways...

We can hope that the ways of peace will attract the Arabic nations, for their territory and opportunities are broad enough for immeasurable advance, if the energies vented in spleen, are turned instead to a modernisation of the technology, a restoration of the soil, and a renovation of the economic, social, and political structure of those great and venerable lands.

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
2 months 1 day ago
I don't think there would be...

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

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Interview Public Radio International
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 3 weeks ago
The real, the unique misfortune...

The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months 1 week ago
Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is...

Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is threatening to a society that is organized around work and production.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
3 months 1 week ago
If thy fellows hurt thee in...

If thy fellows hurt thee in small things, suffer it! and be as bold with them!

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 3 weeks ago
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence...

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

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(p. 26)
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David Wood
David Wood
1 month 1 week ago
Nietzsche's problem is how to be...

Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.

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Chapter 5, Nietzsche's Styles, p. 96
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 3 weeks ago
Our blight is ideologies - they...

Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!

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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 3 weeks ago
In everything well known something worthy...

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

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p. xxxix
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
4 months 1 week ago
Libraries are as the shrine where...

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 3 weeks ago
Our studies of sexual life, originating...

Our studies of sexual life, originating in Vienna and in England, are matched or surpassed by Hindu teachings on this subject... Psychoanalysis itself and the lines of thought to which it gives rise-surely a distinctly Western development-are only a beginner's attempt compared to what is an immemorial art in the East.

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quoted in Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books
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