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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
5 days ago
Dying people often become childish Act...

Dying people often become childish.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 days ago
There is no sin, and there...

There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

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John Rawls
John Rawls
1 month 4 days ago
Our concern is solely with the...

Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 6 days ago
The happiness which forms the utilitarian...

The happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 1 week ago
The directors of such [joint-stock] companies,...

The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 6 days ago
This fact, that the opposite of...

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
6 days ago
So far as it has gone,...

So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
The state of health is a...

The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
I am for the most part...

I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
Again, it is possible to fail...

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited ... and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
I observe that a very large...

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 day ago
There are no solutions, only cowardice...

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 6 days ago
If one advances confidently in the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
The vices respectively fall short of...

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Averroes
Averroes
1 month 3 weeks ago
The double meaning has been given...

The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 month 1 day ago
"To stamp becoming with the character...

"To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power." (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: "That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being."

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 6 days ago
The fundamental cause of the trouble...

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 6 days ago
The monopoly of capital becomes a...

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 week 3 days ago
The main business of religions is...

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

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Porphyry
Porphyry
2 weeks 5 days ago
Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed...

Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united, and proceed into a simultaneous subsistence, through exuberance of power.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 1 week ago
The great end of all human...

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
Character means that the person derives...

Character means that the person derives his rules of conduct from himself and from the dignity of humanity. Character is the common ruling principle in man in the use of his talents and attributes. Thus it is the nature of his will, and is good or bad. A man who acts without settled principles, with no uniformity, has no character. A man may have a good heart and yet no character, because he is dependent upon impulses and does not act according to maxims. Firmness and unity of principle are essential to character.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 3 weeks ago
But the inner part is the...

But the inner part is the better part; for to it, as both ruler and judge, all these messengers of the senses report the answers of heaven and earth and all the things therein, who said, "We are not God, but he made us." My inner man knew these things through the ministry of the outer man, and I, the inner man, knew all this, I, the soul, through the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of earth about my God, and it answered, "I am not he, but he made me."

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 1 week ago
Morality is herd instinct in the...
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 3 weeks ago
When the Head and members are...

When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity (Ps. 30:19).

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 1 day ago
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration,...

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Just now
I am a dreamer of words,...

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks ago
Once he saw...
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Epictetus
Epictetus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Reason is not measured by size...

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
1 month 1 week ago
When profit diminishes, merchants are very...

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
1 month 2 weeks ago
And yet it is hard…

And yet it is hard to believe that anything in nature could stand revealed as solid matter.The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses,like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire; red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam; hard gold is softened and melted down by heat; chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid; heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold;by custom raising the cup, we feel them bothas water is poured in, drop by drop, above.

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Plato
Plato
2 months 3 days ago
The orators

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 6 days ago
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness...

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 1 week ago
Sudden Glory, is the passion which...

Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 3 weeks ago
Therefore, on hearing His words let...

Therefore, on hearing His words let no one say either: "These are not Christ's words," or "These are not my words." On the contrary, if he knows that he is in the body of Christ, let him say: "These are both Christ's words and my words." Say nothing without Him, and He will say nothing without thee. We must not consider ourselves as strangers to Christ, or look upon ourselves as other than Himself.

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Horace
Horace
3 weeks 4 days ago
Let's put a limit to the...

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 3 weeks ago
But it isn't just a matter...

But it isn't just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe you heard the apostle and tremble (Jas 2:19); but their believing doesn't do them any good. Faith alone is not enough, unless works too are joined to it: Faith working through love (Gal 5:6), says the apostle.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
2 months 6 days ago
Since... nature is a principle of...

Since... nature is a principle of motion and mutation... it is necessary that we should not be ignorant of what motion is... But motion appears to belong to things continuous; and the infinite first presents itself to the view in that which is continuous. ...Frequently ...those who define the continuous, employ the nature or the infinite, as if that which is divisible to infinity is continuous.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
1 month 1 week ago
The public is a ferocious beast…

The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 weeks 3 days ago
When the wise man opens his...

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 days ago
All mankind, right down to those...

All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 week 3 days ago
I believe in God, although I...

I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 days ago
Do a man dirt, yourself you...

Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 days ago
Often, writers on historical events tend...

Often, writers on historical events tend to consider ... a loss of willingness to fight as a sign of "decadence," as though there were something despicable about not being a bully and not being willing to engage in mass murder. Perhaps we ought to feel instead that to cease to be warlike means to begin to be civilized and decent.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
5 days ago
I would rather be a devil...

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 day ago
All nature abounds in proofs of...

All nature abounds in proofs of other influences than merely mechanical action, even in the physical world. They crowd in upon us at the rate of several every minute. And my observation of men has led me to this little generalization. Speaking only of men who really think for themselves and not of mere reporters, I have not found that it is the men whose lives are mostly passed within the four walls of a physical laboratory who are most inclined to be satisfied with a purely mechanical metaphysics. On the contrary, the more clearly they understand how physical forces work the more incredible it seems to them that such action should explain what happens out of doors. A larger proportion of materialists and agnostics is to be found among the thinking physiologists and other naturalists, and the largest proportion of all among those who derive their ideas of physical science from reading popular books.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 2 days ago
He kept the middle way, that's...

He kept the middle way, that's all: he was the type of man for whom one has an affection of the mild but steady order - which is the kind that wears best.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
If you punish a child for...

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds either of advantage to himself.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
5 days ago
There is something beautiful about virtue,...

There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 1 week ago
Christianity taught only what the whole...

Christianity taught only what the whole of Asia knew already long before and even better.

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