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2 weeks 4 days ago

To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to love truth, in so far as it is compatible with his own interest, with the will of his superiors, with the dogmas of the church, or with the prejudices and tastes of his contemporaries; so long as he rests content with this position, he is only a philautos, not a philosophos [a lover of self, not a lover of wisdom]. For this title of honor is well and wisely conceived precisely by its stating that one should love the truth earnestly and with one's whole heart, and thus unconditionally and unreservedly, above all else, and, if need be, in defiance of all else. Now the reason for this is the one previously stated that the intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.

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1 month 2 weeks ago

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

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2 weeks 4 days ago

"Let us work without reasoning," said Martin; "it is the only way to make life endurable."

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1 month 1 week ago

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.

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2 weeks 1 day ago

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

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2 weeks 1 day ago

Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer-whether animal or man-perishes with his false beliefs.

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2 weeks 6 days ago

In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.

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1 month 1 day ago

Let not that which in the case of another is contrary to nature become an evil for you; for you are born not to be humiliated along with others, nor to share in their misfortunes, but to share in their good fortune. If, however, someone is unfortunate, remember that his misfortune concerns himself. For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.

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1 week 5 days ago

"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

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2 weeks 5 days ago

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

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2 weeks 1 day ago

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

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6 days ago

All who delight in the pleasures of the belly, exceeding all measure in eating and drinking and love, find that the pleasures are brief and last but a short while-only so long as they are eating and drinking-but the pains that come after are many and endure. The longing for the same things keeps ever returning, and whenever the objects of one's desire are realized forthwith the pleasure vanishes, and one has no further use for them. The pleasure is brief, and once more the need for the same things returns.

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6 days ago

We are but numbers, born to consume resources.

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6 days ago

The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.

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1 month 5 days ago

Now, as the Word of God is the Son of God, so the love of God is the Holy Spirit.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.

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3 weeks 5 days ago

The very elements themselves, though repugnant in their nature, yet, by a happy equilibrium, preserve eternal peace; and amid the discordancy of their constituent principles, cherish, by a friendly intercourse and coalition, an uninterrupted concord.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

All those to whom I looked up, were of opinion that the pleasure of sympathy with human beings, and the feelings which made the good of others, and especially of mankind on a large scale, the object of existence, were the greatest and surest sources of happiness. Of the truth of this I was convinced, but to know that a feeling would make me happy if I had it, did not give me the feeling.

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2 weeks 4 days ago

In a field of ripening corn I came to a place which had been trampled down by some ruthless foot; and as I glanced amongst the countless stalks, every one of them alike, standing there so erect and bearing the full weight of the ear, I saw a multitude of different flowers, red and blue and violet. How pretty they looked as they grew there so naturally with their little foliage! But, thought I, they are quite useless; they bear no fruit; they are mere weeds, suffered to remain only because there is no getting rid of them. And yet, but for these flowers, there would be nothing to charm the eye in that wilderness of stalks. They are emblematic of poetry and art, which, in civic life-so severe, but still useful and not without its fruit-play the same part as flowers in the corn.

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1 month 2 weeks ago

Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. 21:2-5 (KJV)

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Meijer for entrapping and arresting a disabled employee

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Meijer

Rationale

An autistic 16 year old was taking food from the deli over 3 months. They tracked how much he took, and when he had crossed a certain threshold, the had him arrested. There was another employee who was also part of the entrapment scheme.

The general vibe around the boycott is, these are poor workers, scraping by on minimum level wages. The multi billion dollar corporation follows the law absolutely when it comes to you, but we all know it's not so cut and dry at the top.

Search: Meijers, autistic 16 year old, entrapment

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Created: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 - 01:24
1 month 2 weeks ago

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

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3 weeks 3 days ago

No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

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1 week 4 days ago

The public execution is to be understood not only as a judicial, but also as a political ritual. It belongs, even in minor cases, to the ceremonies by which power is manifested.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Formerly, it was held by philosophers and mathematicians alike that the proofs in Geometry depended on the figure; nowadays, this is known to be false. In the best books there are no figures at all. The reasoning proceeds by the strict rules of formal logic from a set of axioms laid down to begin with.

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1 month 1 week ago

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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4 weeks 1 day ago

Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

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1 month 6 days ago

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

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3 weeks ago

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

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1 month 2 weeks ago

Socrates did not stop with a philosophical consideration of mankind; he addressed himself to each one individually, wrested everything from him, and sent him away empty-handed.

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2 weeks 2 days ago

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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2 weeks 5 days ago

Though you give no countenance to the complaints of the querulous, yet take care to curb the insolence and ill nature of the injurious. When you observe it yourself, reprove it before the injur'd party: but if the complaint be of something really worth your notice, and prevention another time, then reprove the offender by himself alone, out of sight of him who complain'd and make him go and ask pardon, and make reparation; which ooming thus, as it were from himself, will be the more cheerfully performed, and more kindly receiv'd, the love strenghten'd between them, and a custom of civility grow familiar amongst your children.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

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3 weeks 3 days ago

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

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2 weeks 2 days ago

It is an odd circumstance that neither the old nor the new, by itself, is interesting; the absolutely old is insipid; the absolutely new makes no appeal at all. The old in the new is what claims the attention,-the old with a slightly new turn.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

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2 weeks 1 day ago

Scientific theories are distinguished from myths... in being criticizable, and... open to modifications... They can be neither verified nor probabilified.

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3 weeks 3 days ago

Few men have been admired by their own domestics.

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1 month 2 weeks ago
The man who is guided by concepts and abstractions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from these abstractions. And while he aims for the greatest possible freedom from pain, the intuitive man, standing in the midst of a culture, already reaps from his intuition a harvest of continually inflowing illumination, cheer, and redemption in addition to obtaining a defense against misfortune. To be sure, he suffers more intensely, when he suffers; he even suffers more frequently, since he does not understand how to learn from experience and keeps falling over and over again into the same ditch.
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2 weeks 2 days ago

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

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1 month 6 days ago

Justice respects man as living in society, and is the common bond without which no society can subsist.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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3 weeks 3 days ago

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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2 weeks 4 days ago

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

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4 weeks 1 day ago

If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Thus heaven I've forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, is chosen for hell.

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2 weeks 4 days ago

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.

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2 weeks 3 days ago

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him.We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

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