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Horace
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He who feared….

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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Book I, epistle xvii, line 37
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
It is not the same thing....

It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

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Act 1
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 3 weeks ago
Riches are a good handmaid, but...

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, "Antitheta"
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 1 week ago
Darwinism is not a testable scientific...

Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program. Unsourced variant: Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
2 months 1 week ago
No differeance without alterity, no alterity...

No differeance without alterity, no alterity without singularity, no singularity without here-now.

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Injunctions of Marx, p,31
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William James
William James
2 months 1 week ago
It is only by risking our...

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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"Is Life Worth Living?"
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 3 weeks ago
I could not be true and...

I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.

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Book II
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
2 weeks 1 day ago
Whatever the explicit strategic or political...

Whatever the explicit strategic or political aims of a war may be, they prove to be weak in comparison with its aims of destruction; what war destroys first are the very restrictions imposed on destructive license. If we can rightly speak about the unstated "aim" of war, it is neither primarily to alter the political landscape nor to establish a new political order, but rather to destroy the social basis of politics itself.

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p. 154
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
1 week 4 days ago
Bitter for a free man….

Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.

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Maxim 14 Variant: "Debt is the slavery of the free."
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
Generally speaking there is no irreducible...

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 week ago
Everything is nothing, including the consciousness...

Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 week ago
A word, once dissected, no longer...

A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week 4 days ago
Any loss of identity prompts people...

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

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Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 6 days ago
Get thee hence, Satan: for it...

Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

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4:10 (KJV) Said to Satan.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 2 weeks ago
It seems to me that science...

It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any philosophy hitherto advanced (I do not, of course, except my own). In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are none. Therefore, although each proposition in a science may be false, and it is practically certain that there are some that are false, yet we shall be wise to build our philosophy upon science, because the risk of error in philosophy is pretty sure to be greater than in science. If we could hope for certainty in philosophy, the matter would be otherwise, but so far as I can see such a hope would be chimerical.

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Logical Atomism, 1924
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 1 week ago
We will freedom for freedom's sake,...

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

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p. 52
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 1 week ago
To-day unbind the captive, So only...

To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!

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Boston Hymn, st. 17
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 2 weeks ago
Why? Surely they can find other...

Why? Surely they can find other men. Russell's reply when asked "if it wasn't unkind of him to love and leave so many women";

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as quoted in My Father - Bertrand Russell (1975) by Katharine Tait, p. 106
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 2 weeks ago
The least initial deviation from the...

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 5 days ago
So we are always esthetically disappointed...

So we are always esthetically disappointed when the sensuous qualities and the intellectual properties of an object do not coalesce.

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p. 7
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 week ago
The notion of nothingness is not...

The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
2 months 3 weeks ago
So in all human affairs one...

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

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Book 1, Ch. 6 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 3 weeks ago
Another argument of hope may be...

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this - that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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Aphorism 109
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 2 weeks ago
Hope is the dream of a...

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
1 month 2 weeks ago
There is no road or ready...

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

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Section 55
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 2 weeks ago
If someone were to expound that...

If someone were to expound that godliness is to belong to childhood in the temporal sense and thus dwindle and die with the years as childhood does, is to be a happy frame of mind that cannot be preserved but only recollected; if someone were to expound that repentance as a weakness of old age accompanies the decline of one's powers, when the senses are dulled, when sleep no longer strengthens but increases lethargy-this would be ungodliness and foolishness.

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Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali
1 month 2 weeks ago
The lowest degree of education is...

The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in the surgeon's cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping glass does not essentially alter the honey. The natural aversion from it in such a case rests on popular ignorance, arising from the fact that the cupping-glass is made only for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood is impure because it is in the cupping-glass, and are not aware that the impurity is due to a property.

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III. The Classes of Seekers, p. 31.
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
2 months 4 days ago
In forming a store of good...

In forming a store of good works thou shouldst be diligent, so that it may come to thy assistance among the spirits.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 week ago
We regret not having the courage...

We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one - any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 2 weeks ago
The objective of all human arrangements...
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 1 week ago
Economics is on the side of...

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 2 weeks ago
The facts of science, as they...

The facts of science, as they appeared to him [Heraclitus], fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

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Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 2 weeks ago
It is proof of a base...

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

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Included as a quotation in The Great Quotations (1977) by George Seldes, p. 35
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 1 week ago
Whether or not there exists a...

Whether or not there exists a solution to problems troubles only a minority; that the emotions have no outcome, lead to nothing, vanish into themselves - that is the great unconscious drama, the affective insolubility everyone suffers without even thinking about it.

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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
6 days ago
This "knowing what to do"... is...

This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

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"Knowledge and Feeling" (p. 35)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 2 weeks ago
I once received a letter from...

I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician, this surprise surprised me.

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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), Part III, chapter II, "Solipsism", p. 196
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 3 weeks ago
Hurl your calumnies…

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Everything that makes diversity of kinds,...

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
2 weeks 1 day ago
Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from...

Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from a pacific or calm part of the soul. Very often it is an expression of rage, indignation, and aggression.

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p. 21
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 3 weeks ago
We believe that the very beginning...

We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

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p. 224
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 week 4 days ago
At electric speed, all forms are...

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

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p. 109
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 2 weeks ago
Young man! Deny yourself satisfaction (of...

Young man! Deny yourself satisfaction (of amusement, of debauchery, of love, etc.), not with the Stoical intention of complete abstinence, but with the refined Epicurean intention of having in view an ever-growing pleasure. This stinginess with the cash of your vital urge makes you definitely richer through the postponement of pleasure, even if you should, for the most part, renounce the indulgence of it until the end of your life. The awareness of having pleasure under your control is, like everything idealistic, more fruitful and more abundant than everything that satisfies the sense through indulgence because it is thereby simultaneously consumed and consequently lost from the aggregate of totality.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 54.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
2 months 3 weeks ago
This type of man who is...

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 1 week ago
What the Greeks sought, and what...

What the Greeks sought, and what they obtained, was Equal Rights for all Citizens. In a certain sense, we might even say Equal Privileges, for there was no race favoured by the constitution more than another;-but there existed a great inequality of power, which indeed arose only by accident and not by the constitution of the State, but which nevertheless the State could not remedy;-and in so far there did not exist Equal Privileges.

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p. 186
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 week 2 days ago
Falling in love is the one...

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. The effect is out of all proportion with the cause. Two persons, neither of them, it may be, very amiable or very beautiful, meet, speak a little, and look a little into each other's eyes. That has been done a dozen or so of times in the experience of either with no great result. But on this occasion all is different. They fall at once into that state in which another person becomes to us the very gist and centrepoint of God's creation, and demolishes our laborious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one master-thought that even the trivial cares of our own person become so many acts of devotion, and the love of life itself is translated into a wish to remain in the same world with so precious and desirable a fellow-creature.

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Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 3.
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
2 weeks 1 day ago
Guilt has to be understood not...

Guilt has to be understood not only as a way of checking one's own destructiveness, but as a mechanism for safeguarding the life of the other, one that emerges from our own need and dependency, from a sense that this life is not a life without another life. Indeed, when it turns into a safeguarding action, I am not sure it should still be called "guilt." If we do still use that term, we could conclude that "guilt" is strangely generative or that its productive form is reparation.

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p. 93
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 week 2 days ago
Every man is his own doctor...

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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An Inland Voyage (1878).
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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 month 1 week ago
To conceive that compulsion and punishment...

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation, is the sentiment of a barbarian; civilisation and science are calculated to explode so ferocious an idea. It was once universally admitted and approved; it is now necessarily upon the decline.

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Vol. 2, bk. 7, ch. 5
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 1 week ago
Maybe this world is another planet's...

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

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As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 239 Point Counter Point (New York: The Modern Library, 1928), Chapter XVII, p. 263
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 6 days ago
I find that...
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