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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 1 week ago
If you are tired of the...

If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves. This book applies the treatment not only to bread or apple but to good and evil, to our endless perils, our anguish, and our joys. By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
5 days ago
For lack of empirical data I...

For lack of empirical data I have neither knowledge nor understanding of such forms of being, which are commonly called spiritual. ...Nevertheless, we have good reason to suppose that behind this veil there exists the uncomprehended absolute object which affects and influences us-and to suppose it even, or particularly, in the case of psychic phenomena about which no verifiable statements can be made.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
People are said to believe in...

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

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On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism, 1914
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Jesus
Jesus
1 day ago
But everyone who hears these sayings...

But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.

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Matthew 7:24-27 (NKJV) (Also Luke 6:47-49)
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 5 days ago
Let the punishments...
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 1 week ago
The sensuous may be exceedingly distinct,...

The sensuous may be exceedingly distinct, while intellectual concepts are extremely confused. The former we observe in the prototype of sensuous knowledge geometry; the latter, in the organon of all intellectual concepts, metaphysics. It is evident how much toil the latter is expending to dispel the fogs of confusion darkening the common intellect, though not always with the happy success of the former science.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
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Govern your tongue before all other...

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
1 month 1 week ago
Always remember that it is impossible...

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 1 week ago
Therefore create me! You, the most...

Therefore create me! You, the most esteemed, cultured public, are in possession of nervus rerum gerendarum [the moving force to accomplish something]. Just a word from you, a promise to purchase what I write, or, if it is possible, so that everything can be in order immediately, a little advance payment, and I am an author; I shall remain one as long as this favor lasts.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 1 week ago
Every emancipation is a restoration of...

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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Horace
Horace
4 weeks ago
The years as they pass…..

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Book II, epistle ii, line 55
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 week 1 day ago
We have unmistakable proof that throughout...

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

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Vol. I, Part III, Ch. 2 General Aspects of the Special-Creation-Hypothesis
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Jesus
Jesus
1 day ago
Whoever drinks from my mouth will...

Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him.

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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
1 month 1 week ago
Create all the happiness you are...

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

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Advice to a young girl, 22 June 1830
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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 4 weeks ago
When the Superior Man (Junzi)...

When the Superior Man (Junzi) eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1 month 2 weeks ago
The natural philosophy of Democritus and...

The natural philosophy of Democritus and some others, who did not suppose a mind or reason in the frame of things, but attributed the form thereof able to maintain itself to infinite essays or proofs of nature, which they term fortune, seemeth to me... in particularities of physical causes more real and better inquired than that of Aristotle and Plato; whereof both intermingled final causes, the one as a part of theology, and the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, being kept within their own province; but because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that tract.

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Book VII, 7
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 4 days ago
But if you say: "How am...

But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms?...

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium
2 weeks 6 days ago
That which exercises reason is more...

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

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As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.; iii. 9.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 1 week ago
Neither of us cares a straw...

Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. A proof of this is for example, that, because of aversion to any personality cult, I have never permitted the numerous expressions of appreciation from various countries with which I was pestered during the existence of the International to reach the realm of publicity, and have never answered them, except occasionally by a rebuke. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes.

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Remarks against personality cults from a letter to W. Blos (10 November 1877).
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 week 2 days ago
In their nomination to office they...

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

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Volume iii, p. 356
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
I have heard with admiring submission...

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared "that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow".

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
Once we begin to want, we...

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
1 week 2 days ago
Where there is…

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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"Selected Ideas (1799-1800)", Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #101
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
6 days ago
Affection requires a firmer foundation than...

Affection requires a firmer foundation than sympathy, and few people have a principle of action sufficiently stable to produce rectitude of feeling; for in spite of all the arguments I have heard to justify deviations from duty, I am persuaded that even the most spontaneous sensations are more under the direction of principle than weak people are willing to allow.

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Letter 17
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
5 days ago
What can a man say about...

What can a man say about woman, his own opposite? I mean of course something sensible, that is outside the sexual program, free of resentment, illusion, and theory. Where is the man to be found capable of such superiority? Woman always stands just where the man's shadow falls, so that he is only too liable to confuse the two. Then, when he tries to repair this misunderstanding, he overvalues her and believes her the most desirable thing in the world.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 1 week ago
'Tis evident, that sympathy, or the...

Tis evident, that sympathy, or the communication of passions, takes place among animals, no less than among men. Fear, anger, courage and other affections are frequently communicated from one animal to another [...] And 'tis remarkable, that tho' almost all animals use in play the same member, and nearly the same action as in fighting; a lion, a tyger, a cat their paws; an ox his homs; a dog his teeth; a horse his heels: Yet they most carefully avoid harming their companion, even tho' they have nothing to fear from his resentment; which is an evident proof of the sense brutes have of each other's pain and pleasure.

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Part 2, Section 12
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
2 weeks 1 day ago
Abstract terms...

Abstract terms (however useful they may be in argument) should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves.

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Democritus
Democritus
4 weeks ago
And yet it will be obvious...

And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 day ago
All natures, all formed things, all...

All natures, all formed things, all creatures exist in and with one another and will again be resolved into their own roots, because the nature of matter is dissolved into the roots of its nature alone. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 1 week ago
The various languages placed side by...
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The "thing in itself" (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays hold of the boldest metaphors.' To begin with, a nerve stimulus is transferred into an image: first metaphor. The image, in turn, is imitated in a sound: second metaphor. And each time there is a complete overleaping of one sphere, right into the middle of an entirely new and different one.
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Parmenides
Parmenides
3 weeks 5 days ago
Do not let habit, born from...

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken.

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Frag. B 7.3-8.1, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
1 month 2 weeks ago
It is not the pleasure of...

It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (...) that are the true ends of knowledge (...), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.

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Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works, Vol. I, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 1 week ago
Any fool can make a ruleAnd...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd every fool will mind it.

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February 3, 1860
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Novalis
Novalis
6 days ago
Denotation by means of sounds and...

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations.

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Fragment No. 2
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 1 week ago
Pride is an established conviction of...

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2
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Jesus
Jesus
1 day ago
Ask, and it will be given...

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

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Matthew 7:7-8 (NKJV) (Also Luke 11:9-13)
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 1 week ago
It will be easy for us...

It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
Without God, everything is nothingness; and...

Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 2 weeks ago
If we allow them any influence...

If we allow them any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of evil, heresies and blasphemies.

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Marthin Luther, Comment, ad Galat., 310. As cited by Rev. Msgr. Patrick F. O'Hare (1916), The Facts about Luther, p. 119. OCLC 4200594.
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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 weeks 5 days ago
"These Macedonians," said he, "are a...

"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."

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39 Philip
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
There are men who astonish and...

There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 weeks 5 days ago
And when the physician said, "Sir,...

And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."

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Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 5 days ago
Life continues, and some mornings, weary...

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone, all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
1 month 3 weeks ago
Behold a God…

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 weeks ago
Plato says, "'Tis to no purpose...

Plato says, "'Tis to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses;" and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly."

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Book II, Ch. 2. Of Drunkenness
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
There exists, I grant you, a...

There exists, I grant you, a clinical depression, upon which certain remedies occasionally have effect; but there exists another kind, a melancholy underlying our very outbursts of gaiety and accompanying us everywhere, without leaving us alone for a single moment. And there is nothing that can rid us of this lethal omnipresence: the self forever confronting itself.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
5 days ago
A marvel that has nothing to...

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
1 month 2 weeks ago
The demands of a free populace,...

The demands of a free populace, too, are very seldom harmful to liberty, for they are due either to the populace being oppressed or to the suspicious that it is going to be oppressed... and, should these impressions be false, a remedy is provided in the public platform on which some man of standing can get up, appeal to the crowd, and show that it is mistaken. And though, as Tully remarks, the populace may be ignorant, it is capable of grasping the truth and readily yields when a man, worthy of confidence, lays the truth before it.

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Book 1, Ch. 4 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
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Novalis
Novalis
6 days ago
The art of writing books is...

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

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