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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 days ago
The South may keep her pine-apples,...

The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries, which are, as it were, pine-apples with "going a-strawberrying" stirred into them, infinitely enhancing their flavor.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Yes, I know well that others...

Yes, I know well that others before me have felt what I feel and express; that many others feel it today, although they keep silence about it. ...And I do not keep silence about it because it is for many the thing which must not be spoken, the abomination of abominations - infandum - and I believe that it is necessary now and again to speak the thing which must not be spoken. ...Even if it should lead only to irritating the devotees of progress, those who believe that truth is consolation, it would lead to not a little. To irritating them and making them say: "Poor fellow! if he would only use his intelligence to better purpose!... Someone perhaps will add that I do not know what I say, to which I shall reply that perhaps he may be right - and being right is such a little thing! - but that I feel what I say and I know what I feel and that suffices me. And that it is better to be lacking in reason than to have too much of it.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 6 days ago
The spurious axioms of the third...

The spurious axioms of the third kind from conditions proper to the subject whence they are transferred rashly to the object are plentiful, not, as in those of the Second Class, because the only way to the intellectual concept lies through the sensuous data, but because only by aid of the latter can the concept be applied to that which is given by experience, that is, can we know whether something is contained under a certain intellectual concept or not. To this class belongs the threadbare one of the schools: whatever exists contingently does at some time not exist. This spurious principle springs from the poverty of the intellect, having insight frequently into the nominal, rarely into the real, marks of contingency or necessity.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 weeks 5 days ago
Whatever part of the animal fabric-whatever...

Whatever part of the animal fabric-whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison-the result would be the same-the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

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Ch.2, p. 101
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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 3 weeks ago
Childhood lasts all through life. It...

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

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Introduction, sect. 6
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
The people are asleep; they remain...

The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
It makes a great difference in...

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 4 weeks ago
Here we must make one of...

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive sciences. We must extend the law of insistency into the future. Plainly, the insistency of a future idea with reference to the present is a quantity affected by the minus sign; for it is the present that affects the future, if there be any effect, not the future that affects the present.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 day ago
People who want to do so...

People who want to do so can lose weight most safely and permanently if they realize that above all they must be patient. ... It is better to eat a little less at each meal than impulse would suggest and to do that constantly. Add to this a little more exercise or activity than impulse suggests and keep that up constantly too. A few less calories taken in each day and a few more used up will decrease weight, slowly, to be sure, but without undue misery. And with better long-range results too.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 1 week ago
In the final, positive state, the...

In the final, positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Abolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the cause of phenomenon, and applies itself to the tudy of their laws, - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of the facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts, the number of which continually diminishes with the progress of science.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 4 days ago
I can understand myself in believing,...

I can understand myself in believing, although in addition I can in a relative misunderstanding comprehend the human aspect of this life: but comprehend faith or comprehend Christ, I cannot.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
1 week 5 days ago
As well as seriously - indeed...

As well as seriously - indeed exhaustively - researching everything that could conceivably go wrong, I think we should also investigate what could go right. The world is racked by suffering. The hedonic treadmill might more aptly be called a dolorous treadmill. Hundreds of millions of people are currently depressed, pain-ridden or both. Hundreds of billions of non-human animals are suffering too. If we weren't so inured to a world of pain and misery, then the biosphere would be reckoned in the throes of a global medical emergency. Thanks to breakthroughs in biotechnology, pain-thresholds, default anxiety levels, hedonic range and hedonic set-points are all now adjustable parameters in human and non-human animals alike. We are living in the final century of life on Earth in which suffering is biologically inevitable. As a society, we need an ethical debate about how much pain and misery we want to preserve and create. How do you break the hedonic treadmill?"

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Averroes
Averroes
3 months 3 weeks ago
The Asharites have expressed a very...

The Asharites have expressed a very peculiar opinion, both with regard to reason and religion; about this problem they have explained it in a way in which religion has not, but have adopted quite an opposite method.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 days ago
God whispers to us in our...

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
If things are deprived of memory,...

If things are deprived of memory, they become information or commodities. They are pushed into a time-free, ahistorical place.

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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 3 weeks ago
The superior man, even when he...

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 4 days ago
Vice itself lost half its evil...

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 6 days ago
This is the mistake which I...
This is the mistake which I seem to make eternally, that I imagine the sufferings of others as far greater than they really are. Ever since my childhood, the proposition, my greatest dangers lie in pity, has been confirmed again and again.
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month ago
The argument of this book is...

The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.

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Ch. 1. Why Are People?
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 4 weeks ago
The problem is not to discover...

The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to arrive at a multiplicity of relationships. And, no doubt, homosexuality is not a form of desire but something desirable. Therefore, we have to work at becoming homosexuals.

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"Friendship as a Way of Life," interview in Gai pied, April 1981, as translated in Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth (1994), pp. 135-136
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 2 days ago
Three o'clock is always too late...

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months ago
The whole nature of man presupposes...

The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

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"Two Essays in Analytical Psychology" In CW 7: P. 188
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 1 week ago
He that gives quickly….

He that gives quickly gives twice.

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Adagia, 1508
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
The concept of space...
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 1 week ago
Every body continues in its state...

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

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Laws of Motion, I
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Science does not know its debt...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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Poetry and Imagination
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
2 months 3 days ago
Death is the most blessed dream....

Death is the most blessed dream.

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Act II.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
4 weeks 1 day ago
It is better to lose health...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 days ago
Then I dreamed that one day...

Then I dreamed that one day there was nothing but milk for them and the jailer said as he put down the pipkin:'Our relations with the cow are not delicate-as you can easily see if you imagine eating any of her other secretions.' ... John said, 'Thank heavens! Now at last I know that you are talking nonsense. You are trying to pretend that unlike things are like. You are trying to make us think that milk is the same sort of thing as sweat or dung.' 'And pray, what difference is there except by custom?''Are you a liar or only a fool, that you see no difference between that which Nature casts out as refuse and that which she stores up as food?'

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Pilgrim's Regress 49
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 6 days ago
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind...
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself, in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms." Variant translation: The constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is more incomprehensible than how an honest and pure urge for truth could make its appearance among men.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 1 day 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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bell hooks
bell hooks
1 month 2 weeks ago
Black women control the world. We...

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

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Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002) ISBN 0-06-093829-3
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months ago
The healthy man does not torture...

The healthy man does not torture others-generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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In Du, May 1941
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 week ago
Some will object that the Law...

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 1 week ago
The first condition of unity is...

The first condition of unity is a subjective principle; and this principle in the Positive system is the subordination of the intellect to the heart: Without this the unity that we seek can never be placed on a permanent basis, whether individually or collectively. It is essential to have some influence sufficiently powerful to produce convergence amid the heterogeneous and often antagonistic tendencies of so complex an organism as ours.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 2 weeks ago
One man will say a thing...

One man will say a thing of himself without comprehending its excellence, in which another will discern a marvelous series of conclusions, which makes us affirm that it is no longer the same expression, and that he is no more indebted for it to the one from whom he has learned it, than a beautiful tree belongs to the one who cast the seed, without thinking of it, or knowing it, into the fruitful soil which caused its growth by its own fertility.

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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 2 weeks ago
The human soul has need of...

The human soul has need of truth and of freedom of expression. The need for truth requires that intellectual culture should be universally accessible, and that it should be able to be acquired in an environment neither physically remote nor psychologically alien.

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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
1 month 3 weeks ago
The ultimate goal of the arriviste's...

The ultimate goal of the arriviste's aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the "thing" as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 5 days ago
Life is bristling…

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1882], vol. XIV, letter # 7692 (p. 478)
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 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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p. 158
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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 1 day ago
If our Bodily Life is a...

If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
3 months 2 weeks ago
Men are disturbed, not by things,...

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

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(5). (Enchiridion 5)
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 day ago
The purpose of aphorisms is to...

The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.

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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month 3 weeks ago
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy...

Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
Two men who differ as to...

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 days ago
Once ... I was offered a...

Once ... I was offered a lift by some carters ... It was the Thursday before Easter. I was seated in the first cart, with a strong, red, coarse carman, who evidently drank. On entering a village we saw a well-fed, naked, pink pig being dragged out of the first yard to be slaughtered. It squealed in a dreadful voice, resembling the shriek of a man. Just as we were passing they began to kill it. A man gashed its throat with a knife. The pig squealed still more loudly and piercingly, broke away from the men, and ran off covered with blood. Being near-sighted I did not see all the details. I saw only the human-looking pink body of the pig and heard its desperate squeal; but the carter saw all the details and watched closely. They caught the pig, knocked it down, and finished cutting: its throat. When its squeals ceased the carter sighed heavily. 'Do men really not have to answer for such things?' he said.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 5 days ago
A people that sells its own children…

A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master was born to have one.

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Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Espit des Nations (1753)
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 6 days ago
To dissimulate is to pretend not...

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms" (Littré). Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary."

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"The Precession of Simulacra," p. 3
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
And if the immortality of the...

And if the immortality of the soul had been unable to find vindication in rational empiricism, neither is it satisfied with pantheism. To say that everything is God, and that when we die, we return to God, or more accurately, continue in Him, avails our longing nothing; for if this indeed be so, then we were in God before we were born, and if we die we return to where we were before being born, then the human soul, the individual consciousness, is perishable. And since we know very well that God, the personal and conscious God of Christian monotheism, is simply the provider, and above all the guarantor, of our immortality, pantheism is said, and rightly said to be merely atheism disguised; and in my opinion, undisguised.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 days ago
In order that men should embrace...

In order that men should embrace the truth - not in the vague way they did in childhood, nor in the one-sided and perverted way presented to them by their religious and scientific teachers, but embrace it as their highest law the complete liberation of this truth from all and every superstition (both pseudo-religious and pseudo-scientific) by which it is still obscured is essential: not a partial, timid attempt, reckoning with traditions sanctified by age and with the habits of the people - not such as was effected in the religious sphere by Guru Nanak, the founder of the sect of the Sikhs, and in the Christian world by Luther, and by similar reformers in other religions - but a fundamental cleansing of religious consciousness from all ancient religious and modern scientific superstitions.

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