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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 week 1 day ago
The conscious mind allows itself to...

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 1 week ago
In an age as agitated as...

In an age as agitated as ours, it no longer suffices just to be advertised in the newspaper. To be advertised in this way is the same thing as being consigned to oblivion. If one is to be noticed, once must as least appear on the first page under a hand that points to and, as it were, announces or advertises the advertisement.

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Cisero
Cisero
2 months ago
Force overcome by force.

Force overcome by force.

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Pro Milone, Chapter XI, section 30 Variant translation: Violence conquered by violence.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 week 6 days ago
The most obvious division of society...

The most obvious division of society is into rich and poor; and it is no less obvious, that the number of the former bear a great disproportion to those of the latter. The whole business of the poor is to administer to the idleness, folly, and luxury of the rich; and that of the rich, in return, is to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and increasing the burdens of the poor. In a state of nature, it is an invariable law, that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours. In a state of artificial society, it is a law as constant and as invariable, that those who labour most enjoy the fewest things; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments. A constitution of things this, strange and ridiculous beyond expression! We scarce believe a thing when we are told it, which we actually see before our eyes every day without being in the least surprised.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Animals destitute of reason live with...

Animals destitute of reason live with their own kind in a state of social amity. Elephants herd together; sheep and swine feed in flocks; cranes and crows take their flight in troops; storks have their public meetings to consult previously to their emigration, and feed their parents when unable to feed themselves; dolphins defend each other by mutual assistance; and everybody knows, that both ants and bees have respectively established by general agreement, a little friendly community.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
What is a weed? A plant...

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

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Fortune of the Republic, 1878
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
1 week 5 days ago
When men hire themselves out to...

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

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"Patriotism", p. 126
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
3 days ago
So long as you "have" yourself,...

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

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p. 148
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 1 day ago
The fear of your own solitude,...

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

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Horace
Horace
1 month 2 days ago
In peace, as a wise man….

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

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Book II, satire ii, line 111
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 days ago
Being in humaneness is good....

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? The opening phrase of this chapter after which the chapter is named in Chinese.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
1 week 5 days ago
Feuerbach is saying: No, wait a...

Feuerbach is saying: No, wait a minute - if you are going to be allowed to go on living as you are living, then you also have to admit that you are not Christians. Feuerbach has understood the requirements but cannot force himself to submit to them - ergo, he prefers to renounce being a Christian. And now, no matter how great a responsibility he must bear, he takes a position that is not unsound, that is, it is wrong of established Christendom to say that Feuerbach is attacking Christianity; it is not true, he is attacking the Christians by demonstrating that their lives do not correspond to the teachings of Christianity.

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Soren Kierkegaard, Journals X2A 163
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
2 months ago
Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred...

Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.

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Pange, Lingua, stanza 5 (Tantum Ergo)
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
1 month 2 weeks ago
What I had to say was...

What I had to say was so clear and I felt it so deeply that I am amazed by the tediousness, repetitiousness, verbiage, and disorder of this writing. What would have made it lively and vehement coming from another's pen is precisely what has made it dull and slack coming from mine. The subject was myself, and I no longer found on my own interest that zeal and vigor of courage which can exalt a generous soul only for another person's cause.

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On the Subject and Form of This Writing; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
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Jesus
Jesus
5 days 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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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 weeks 3 days ago
I am obliged to confess that...

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

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Chapter XVIII.
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
1 month 2 weeks ago
I have said more than once…

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

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Third letter to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks ago
When the throne...
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William James
William James
1 month 1 week ago
Truth happens to an idea. It...

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

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Lecture VI, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 1 week ago
Who is to blame but her...

Who is to blame but her and the third factor, from whence no one knows, which moved me with its stimulus and transformed me? After all, what I have done is praised in others.-Or is becoming a poet my compensation? I reject all compensation, I demand my rights-that is, my honor. I did not ask to become one, I will not buy it at this price. – Or if I am guilty, then I certainly should be able to repent of my guilt and make it good again. Tell me how. On top of that, must I perhaps repent that the world plays with me as a child plays with a beetle?-Or is it perhaps best to forget the whole thing? Forget-indeed, I shall have ceased to be if I forget it. Or what kind of life would it be if along with my beloved I have lost honor and pride and lost them in such a way that no one knows how it happened, for which reason I can never retrieve them again? Shall I allow myself to be shoved out in this manner? Why, then, was I shoved in?

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 6 days ago
Discourses are tactical...

Discourses are tactical elements or blocks operating in the field of force relations; there can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy; they can, on the contrary, circulate without changing their form from one strategy to another, opposing strategy.

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Vol I, pp. 101-102
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Gottlob frege
Gottlob frege
5 days ago
Every good mathematician is at least...

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

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Attributed to Frege in: A. A. B. Aspeitia (2000), Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period, Indiana University, p. 25
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 week 1 day ago
How can a past idea be...

How can a past idea be present?... it can only be going, infinitesimally past, less past than any assignable past date. We are thus brought to the conclusion that the present is connected to the past by a series of real infinitesimal steps.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
1 month 2 weeks ago
I know my heart, and have...

I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work. Variant translations: I may not be better than other people, but at least I am different. If I am not better, at least I am different.

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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 2 days ago
When I walk along with...

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 6 days ago
The disappearance of public executions marks...

The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body.

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Chapter One, The Spectacle of the Scaffold
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 week 1 day ago
What distinct meaning can attach to...

What distinct meaning can attach to saying that an idea in the past in any way affects an idea in the future, from which it is completely detached?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 1 week ago
The days .... come and go...

The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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Works and Days
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Cornel West
Cornel West
1 month 1 week ago
To be an intellectual really means...

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of the world that puts into the limelight the social misery that is usually hidden or concealed by the dominant viewpoints of a society. "Intellectual" in that sense simply means those who are willing to reflect critically upon themselves as well as upon the larger society and to ascertain whether there is some possibility of amelioration and betterment.

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"Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." in The Cornel West Reader. Basic Books. 2000. p. 551. ISBN 978-0-465-09110-2.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 1 week ago
What is troubling us is the...

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

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Remarks to John Wisdom, quoted in Zen and the Work of WIttgenstein by Paul Weinpaul in The Chicago Review Vol. 12, (1958), p. 70
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 weeks 3 days ago
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational...

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

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Bk. 1, chap. 1; as cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book, (1914), p. 224
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 1 week ago
""You do not love the mind...

""You do not love the mind of your race, nor the body. Any kind of creature will please you if only it is begotten by your kind as they now are. It seems to me, Thick One, what you really love is no completed creature but the very seed itself: for that is all that is left".

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Oyarsa
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
2 months 1 week ago
Can one be a saint without...

Can one be a saint without God?, that's the problem, in fact the only problem, I'm up against today.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
Machines are worshipped because they are...

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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Ch. 6: Machines and the Emotions
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 4 weeks ago
Thou hast made us for Thyself,...

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.

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p. 515
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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 week 2 days ago
Simplify the social system, in the...

Simplify the social system, in the manner which every motive, but those of usurpation and ambition, powerfully recommends; render the plain dictates of justice level to every capacity; remove the necessity of implicit faith; and we may expect the whole species to become reasonable and virtuous.

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Portable Enlightenment Reader, p. 477
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 1 week ago
Let a man take time enough...

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion; as if the short spring days were an eternity.

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Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 175
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 month 1 week ago
The human being is not the...

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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Letter on Humanism
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 weeks 2 days ago
If exclusive privileges were not granted,...

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

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Article on Wealth
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
Few people can be happy unless...

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

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Attributed to Russell in Prochnow's Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 132
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
2 months 1 day ago
Lifetime is a child at play,...

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 week 1 day ago
Life is too full of death...

Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 1 week ago
All who are not lunatics are...

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

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"The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine, 3/19/1950
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 1 week ago
The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution...

The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

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"The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 7 November 1848.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 2 weeks ago
At the very beginning of my...

At the very beginning of my fevers and sicknesses that cast me down, whilst still entire, and but little, disordered in health, I reconcile myself to Almighty God by the last Christian, offices, and find myself by so doing less oppressed and more easy, and have got, methinks, so much the better of my disease. And I have yet less need of a notary or counsellor than of a physician.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 2 weeks ago
Mathematics would certainly have not come...
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 1 week ago
Merely to come into the world...

Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.

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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
1 month 2 days ago
Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and...

Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.

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Frag. B 12, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
1 month 4 weeks ago
The true servants of God are...

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
1 month 3 weeks ago
Do not imagine that it is...

Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.

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