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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53

He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially, it may be supposed, in the presence of young persons: but when he did, it was with an air of settled and profound conviction. He would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but he never spoke with anything like enthusiasm even of that possibility.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2025 - 07:31

Cease therefore to be dismayed by the mere novelty and so to reject reason from your mind with loathing: weigh the questions rather with keen judgment and if they seem to you to be true, surrender, or if the thing is false, gird yourself to the encounter.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45

The necessity of speaking, the predicament of having nothing to say, and the desire for tact are three things that can turn the greatest man into a laughingstock.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

There are three lines of life which stand out prominently to view: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the life of reflection.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 04:29

I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 01:58

Tibetan prayer wheels: you write a prayer on a paper, put the rolled paper on a wheel, and turn it automatically, without thinking. In this way, the wheel itself is praying for me, instead of me - or more precisely, I myself am praying through the medium of the wheel. The beauty of it all is that in my psychological inferiority I can think about whatever I want, I can yield to the most dirty and obscene fantasies, and it does not matter because - to use a good old Stalinist expression - 'whatever I am thinking, objectively I am praying.'

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within-they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

People will become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 21:26-27, NWT

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 15:24 (KJV)

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15

Only charity admitteth no excess. For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15

The law of nature teaches me to speak in my own defence: With respect to this charge of bribery I am as innocent as any man born on St. Innocents Day. I never had a bribe or reward in my eye or thought when pronouncing judgment or order (...). I am ready to make an oblation of myself to the King.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child - this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 00:01

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:17

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 - 23:28

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 - 01:55

These five rules [above] form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 03:49

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Let the superior man never fail reverentially to order his own conduct, and let him be respectful to others and observant of propriety: then all within the four seas, all men are brothers. What has the superior man to do with being distressed because he has no brothers?

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42

Ignorance is the mother of Devotion: A maxim that is proverbial, and confirmed by general experience. Look out for a people, entirely destitute of religion: If you find them at all, be assured, that they are but few degrees removed from brutes. What so pure as some of the morals, included in some theological system? What so corrupt as some of the practices, to which these systems give rise?

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Sat, 22 Nov 2025 - 03:30

In order to understand the Scriptures, it is absolutely necessary to know the whole, complete Christ, that is, Head and members. For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone, sometimes in the name of His body, which is the holy Church spread over the entire earth. And we are in His body, and we hear ourselves speaking in it, for the Apostle tells us: We are members of His body (Eph. 5:30). In many places does the Apostle tell us this.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 21:04

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53

For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

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

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding "truth" within the realm of reason. If I make up the definition of a mammal, and then, after inspecting a camel, declare "look, a mammal' I have indeed brought a truth to light in this way, but it is a truth of limited value. That is to say, it is a thoroughly anthropomorphic truth which contains not a single point which would be "true in itself" or really and universally valid apart from man. At bottom, what the investigator of such truths is seeking is only the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 23:20

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 05:48

It is asserted that beasts have no rights; the illusion is harboured that our conduct, so far as they are concerned, has no moral significance, or, as it is put in the language of these codes, that "there are no duties to be fulfilled towards animals." Such a view is one of revolting coarseness, a barbarism of the West, whose source is Judaism. In philosophy, however, it rests on the assumption, despite all evidence to the contrary, of the radical difference between man and beast,-a doctrine which, as is well known, was proclaimed with more trenchant emphasis by Descartes than by any one else: it was indeed the necessary consequence of his mistakes.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 03:49

The doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust. For I doubt not, but if it had been a thing contrary to any mans right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, That the three Angles of a Triangle, should be equall to two Angles of a Square; that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of Geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 22:19

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 - 02:12

No subgroup, race, nationalism, religious group, gender based groups or other identity essence based groups will never be more important that, and should never ethically take precedence over the existence based universal group, the human group. Universal identity takes precedence over subgroup identity, and when we are forced to subgroup in reaction to injustice, that is the only ethical subgroup.

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