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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
But when they have realized that...

But when they have realized that it [society] rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17
To shoot down a European is...

To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.

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Jesus
Jesus
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58
The next day as they were...

The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it. The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry. After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Mark 11:12-14 11:12-14

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19
With the greater part of rich...

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

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David Hume
David Hume
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42
A propensity to hope and joy...

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
An untempted woman cannot boast of...

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Of course, I had to own...

Of course, I had to own that he was right; I didn't feel much regret for what I'd done. Still, to my mind, he overdid it, and I'd have liked to have a chance of explaining to him, in a quite friendly, almost affectionate way, that I have never been able to really regret anything in all my life. I've always been far too much absorbed in the present moment, or the immediate future, to think back.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24
To stand on one leg and...

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 00:33
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine...

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

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John Locke
John Locke
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 19:51
The only thing we are naturally...

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 04:29
Materials are indifferent, but the use...

Materials are indifferent, but the use which we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
When I play with my cat,...

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44
Since the narrower or wider community...

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

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David Hume
David Hume
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42
Now as we call every thing...

Now as we call every thing custom, which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:31
Diogenes...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48
If at times I have thought...

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
It is strange that men will...

It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06
We all want progress. But progress...

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 00:33
I am particularly grateful to Nozick...

I am particularly grateful to Nozick for his unfailing help and encouragement during the last stages.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
The tool, as we have seen,...

The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
I trust that some may be...

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
In plain truth, lying is an...

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 01:37
I strongly suspect that most of...

I strongly suspect that most of the great knowers of Suchness paid very little attention to art.... (To a person whose transfigured and transfiguring mind can see the All in every this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a religious painting will be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
Confidence in another man's virtue is...

Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. Variant: Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
As a genius of construction man...
As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 23:20
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais. Translation: The...

The offender never forgives.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
The merits of democracy are negative:...

The merits of democracy are negative: it does not insure good government, but it prevents certain evils.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
Perseus wore a magic cap that...

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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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08
Philosophy stands in the same relation...

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15
There are also Idols formed by...

There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59
God never sends evils…

God never sends evils.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world...

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
There was no denying that he...

There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn't help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.

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Confucius
Confucius
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07
There are only the wise...

There are only the wise of the highest class, and the stupid of the lowest class, who cannot be changed.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
I believe that the abolition of...

I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
One must care about a world...

One must care about a world one will not see.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45
A witty saying…

A witty saying proves nothing.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
The wisest man preaches no doctrines;...

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25
Time is a game played beautifully...

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
Never read any book that is...

Never read any book that is not a year old.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06
Christianity does not involve the belief...

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19
This great increase of the quantity...

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 - 03:30
The fellow who eggs you on...

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say, as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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kalokagathia
kalokagathia
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 - 01:26
Exclude those that exclude

We cannot stand by while the social contract is broken by those who chose conflict over equality. Those that want equal treatment for themselves have to treat others equally. They cannot lead with exclusion, then turn around and demand equal treatment. It is a double standard. If they are going to exclude first, then justice demands that we, the group that stands with universality, follow our duty to react and exclude those that exclude.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56
For what are they all in...

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06
Friendship, I have said, is born...

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19
There are various, nay, incredible faiths;...

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28
For Christ is Joy and Sweetness...

For Christ is Joy and Sweetness to a broken heart. Christ is a Lover of poor sinners, and such a Lover that He gave Himself for us. Now if this is true, and it is true, then are we never justified by our own righteousness.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44
Consider the most famous pure dystopian...

Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing...

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

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