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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 1 week ago
By a lie a man throws...

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

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Doctrine of Virtue as translated by Mary J. Gregor (1964), p. 93
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 1 week ago
In America a woman loses her...

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

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Book Three, Chapter X.
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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Art is the perfection of nature....

Art is the perfection of nature.

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Section 16
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 1 week ago
I have seen the truth...

I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth - it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 weeks 4 days ago
Little can be hoped for from...

Little can be hoped for from a ruler... who has not at some time or other been preoccupied, even if only confusedly, with the first beginning and ultimate end of all things, and above all of man, with the "why" of his origin and the "wherefore" of his destiny.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 days ago
To claim you are more detached,...

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 1 week ago
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it,...

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Art
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 days ago
Isn't history ultimately the result of...

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

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 6 days ago
Women are systematically degraded by receiving...

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

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Ch. 4
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 1 week ago
The sins of the flesh are...

The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither.

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Book III, Chapter 5, "Sexual Morality"
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
1 month 1 week ago
Every attempt to refer chemical questions...

Every attempt to refer chemical questions to mathematical doctrines must be considered, now and always, profoundly irrational, as being contrary to the nature of the phenomena. . . . but if the employment of mathematical analysis should ever become so preponderant in chemistry (an aberration which is happily almost impossible) it would occasion vast and rapid retrogradation....

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 1 week ago
There is needed, no doubt, a...

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

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Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, "The Christian religion as a natural religion"
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 3 weeks ago
When I see someone in anxiety,...

When I see someone in anxiety, I say to myself, What can it be that this fellow wants? For if he did not want something that was outside of his control, how could he still remain in anxiety?

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Book II, ch. 13, 1.
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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
3 weeks 3 days ago
Necessity resides in the way we...

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

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Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The law of causality, I believe,...

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

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Ch. 9: On the Notion of Cause
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 week ago
She with one breath attunes the...

She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.

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"Inspiration", in An American Anthology, 1900
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 5 days ago
A punishment that penalizes without forestalling...

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 day ago
For it is easier for a...

For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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18:25 (KJV)
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 5 days ago
We should not pretend to understand...

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Variant translation: We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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Conclusion, p. 628
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Horace
Horace
1 month 4 weeks ago
My cares and my inquiries….

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

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Book I, epistle i, line 11
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The degree of one's emotion varies...

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

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Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
2 months 4 weeks ago
Ten thousand do not turn the...

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 3 weeks ago
When you do anything from a...

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?

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(35).
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
I was not the one to...

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

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Act 5, sc. 3
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 weeks ago
Those who devote themselves to rituals...

Those who devote themselves to rituals must ignore themselves. Rituals produce a distance from the self, a self-transcendence.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
2 months 4 weeks ago
It is better...

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 day ago
This "knowing what to do"... is...

This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

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"Knowledge and Feeling" (p. 35)
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
1 month 2 weeks ago
Since therefore, as well those degrees...

Since therefore, as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that external bodies are absolutely incapable of any degree of heat whatsoever?

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Philonous to Hylas. Hylas replies with, "So it seems".
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 1 week ago
Morality is not properly the doctrine...

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 1 week ago
None of the things they learn,...

None of the things they learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos's on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed, presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency. Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day, whether he has or has not a mind to it; let this be but requir'd of him as a duty, wherein he must spend so many hours morning and afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any play at this rate. Is it not so with grown men?

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Sec. 73
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 3 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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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Hope is the only good that...

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

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A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 week 3 days ago
There is a similarity between writers...

There is a similarity between writers and SDS [Students for a Democratic Society, a radical left-wing group]: Plenty of paranoia, but no ideas.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 1 week ago
If, then, in the sphere of...

If, then, in the sphere of action there is some one end which we desire for its own sake, and for the sake of which we desire every thing else; and if we do not choose every thing for the sake of something else, for this would go on without limit, and our desire would be idle and futile, it is clear that this must be the supreme good, and the best thing of all.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 4 days ago
The lover who kills himself for...

The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 6 days ago
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually...

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

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Letter 12
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 4 weeks ago
Only after Winter comes do we...

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 3 days ago
My aim is not to provide...

My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people. We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must do so cognizant of the circumstances into which people are born and under which they live. By overlooking these circumstances, the new black conservatives fall into the trap of blaming black poor people for their predicament. It is imperative to steer a course between the Scylla of environmental determinism and the Charybdis of a blaming-the-victims perspective.

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(p56)
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 5 days ago
This was her finest role and...

This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
2 months 1 week ago
Go where we will on the...

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
6 days ago
A theory of cultural change is...

A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses.

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(p. 49)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 1 week ago
Only a male intellect clouded by...

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 369
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 2 weeks ago
When you wander, as you often...

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

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Letter of Expostulation to Coke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
3 weeks ago
Stories on digital platforms like Facebook...

Stories on digital platforms like Facebook or Instagram are not genuine stories. They have no narrative duration. Rather, they are just sequences of momentary impressions that do not tell us anything.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 1 week ago
The essence of the Liberal outlook...

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 4 days ago
If someone asked us 'but...

If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say "yes" to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say "I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same."

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 1 week ago
All mortals are equal…

All mortals are equal; it is not their birth,But virtue itself that makes the difference.

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Ériphyle Act II, scene I (1732); these lines were also later used in Voltaire's Mahomet, Act I, scene IV (1741)
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 day ago
Yea; have ye never read, Out...

Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

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21:16 (KJV)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 days ago
The breath of the aristocrat....
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 2 weeks ago
Faith, like light, should ever be...

Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

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