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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
After silence that which comes nearest...

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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"The Rest is Silence"
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
6 days ago
Therefore tolerance of diversity, of people...

Therefore tolerance of diversity, of people that don't believe the same thing that you do, has always been at the core of this pragmatic project to enable diverse populations to live with one another.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
Goodbye, friend Elijiah, and remember that,...

Goodbye, friend Elijiah, and remember that, although people apply the phrase to Aurora, it is, from this point on, Earth itself that is the true World of the Dawn.

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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
2 months 2 days ago
The disparagement of empirical evidence in...

The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflict between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.

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p. 138.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 2 weeks ago
He that defers his charity 'till...

He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.

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Ornamenta Rationalia, [§55]
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
To choose one sock from each...

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

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As quoted in Williams' Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics (2001), p. 498
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 days ago
With his sharp power of vision,...

With his sharp power of vision, resolute power of action, I doubt not he could have learned to write Books withal, and speak fluently enough;-he did harder things than writing of Books. This kind of man is precisely he who is fit for doing manfully all things you will set him on doing.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
"What's this? Am I falling? My...

"What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired gunner artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that. Above him there was nothing but the sky - the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.

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Bk. III, Ch. 16
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 2 weeks ago
The wise soul feareth not death;...

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 1 week ago
Karsky: I met your father last...

Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?

Hugo: No. 

Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.

Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

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Act 4, sc. 4
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 2 weeks ago
There is another ground of hope...

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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Aphorism 111
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 3 weeks ago
In a quarrel for earth, turn...

In a quarrel for earth, turn not to earth.

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First Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 267
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Epicurus
Epicurus
4 months 1 day ago
The happiness which belongs to man,...

The happiness which belongs to man, is that state in which he enjoys as many of the good things, and suffers as few of the evils incident to human nature as possible; passing his days in a smooth course of permanent tranquility. A wise man, though deprived of sight or hearing, may experience happiness in the enjoyment of the good things which yet remain; and when suffering torture, or laboring under some painful disease, can mitigate the anguish by patience, and can enjoy, in his afflictions, the consciousness of his own constancy.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the...

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
There is only one enduring happiness...

There is only one enduring happiness in life-to live for others.

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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
2 months 2 days ago
To a lesser degree, a secret...

To a lesser degree, a secret ressentiment underlies every way of thinking which attributes creative power to mere negation and criticism. Thus modern philosophy is deeply penetrated by a whole type of thinking which is nourished by ressentiment. I am referring to the view that the "true" and the "given" is not that which is self-evident, but rather that which is "indubitable" or "incontestable," which can be maintained against doubt and criticism.

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L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 67
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 1 week ago
Don't get involved in partial problems,...

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 1 week ago
You always hear people say that...

You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were already preoccupying the Greeks are still troubling us today. But people who say that do not understand the reason why it has to be so. The reason is that our language has remained the same and always introduces us to the same questions. ... I read: "philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,...". What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato could have got even as far as he did! Or that we could not get any further! Was it because Plato was so extremely clever?

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 4 days ago
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of...

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 2 weeks ago
In ease of body and peace...

In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 4 weeks ago
Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes...

Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 1 week ago
An intolerant sect....
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 months 2 days ago
Science does not stand still, and...

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

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Afterword To The 2011 Edition, p. 187
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
Great men are they who see...

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfillment. 

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July 18, 1867, Progress of Culture Phi Beta Kappa Address
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 1 week ago
Understand me well. My appeal is...

Understand me well. My appeal is to observation - observation that each of you must make for himself.

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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 2 : Struggle, CP 5.53
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months 1 week ago
Whereas logic and objectivity are usually...

Whereas logic and objectivity are usually the predominant features of a man's outer attitude, or are at least regarded as ideals, in the case of a woman it is feeling. But in the soul it is the other way round: inwardly it is the man who feels, and the woman who reflects. Hence a man's greater liability to total despair, while a woman can always find comfort and hope; accordingly a man is more likely to put an end to himself than a woman. However much a victim of social circumstances a woman may be, as a prostitute for instance, a man is no less a victim of impulses from the unconscious, taking the form of alcoholism and other vices.

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Psychological Types (1921). CW 6. P.805
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
4 months 1 week ago
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories,...

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories, and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.

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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 months 2 days ago
I will now tell you who...

I will now tell you who are assembled here the wise sayings of Mazda, the praises of Ahura and the hymns of the Good Spirit, the sublime truth which I see rising out of these flames. You shall therefore harken to the Soul of Nature. Contemplate the beams of fire with a most pious mind. Every one, both men and women, ought to-day to choose his creed. Ye offspring of renowned ancestors, awake to agree with us. So preached Zoroaster, the proph of the Parsis, in one of his earliest sermons nearly 3,500 years ago.

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p. 15 (Introduction), S. A. Kapadia
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 2 weeks ago
He that I am reading seems...

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

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Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
5 days ago
Names and attributes must be accommodated...

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

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As quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 month 1 week ago
There is but one art, to...

There is but one art, to omit.

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As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 6 days ago
The public execution is to be...

The public execution is to be understood not only as a judicial, but also as a political ritual. It belongs, even in minor cases, to the ceremonies by which power is manifested.

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Chapter One, The body of the condemned
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn
2 days ago
Normal science, the activity in which...

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

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Proclus
Proclus
2 months 3 weeks ago
Not much younger than these...

Not much younger than these (sc. Hermotimus of Colophon and Philippus of Mende) is Euclid, who put together the Elements, collecting many of Eudoxus' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus', and also bringing to irrefragable demonstration the things which were only somewhat loosely proved by his predecessors. This man lived in the time of the first Ptolemy. For Archimedes, who came immediately after the first (Ptolemy), makes mention of Euclid: and, further, they say that Ptolemy once asked him if there was in geometry any shorter way than that of the elements, and he answered that there was no royal road to geometry. He is then younger than pupils of Plato but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for the latter were contemporary with one another, as Eratosthenes somewhere says.

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As quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements (1908) Vol.1 Introduction and Books I, II p.1, citing Proclus ed. Friedlein, p. 68, 6-20.
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Gottlob frege
Gottlob frege
2 months 4 days ago
A scientist can hardly meet with...

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

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Note in the appendix of Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Vol. 2) after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
By quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of...

By quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of confederating, Germans and Scandinavians, both of them belonging to the same great race, only prepare the way for their hereditary enemy, the Slav. 

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The Eastern Question: A Reprint of Letters written 1853 -1856 dealing with the events of the Crimean War, edit., Eleanor Marx Aveling, London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (1897) p. 90
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 1 week ago
At my age one's got to...

At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.

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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
2 months 2 days ago
The process of aging can only...

The process of aging can only be fruitful and satisfactory if the important transitions are accompanied by free resignation, by the renunciation of the values proper to the preceding stage of life. Those spiritual and intellectual values which remain untouched by the process of aging, together with the values of the next stage of life, must compensate for what has been lost. Only if this happens can we cheerfully relive the values of our past in memory, without envy for the young to whom they are still accessible. If we cannot compensate, we avoid and flee the "tormenting" recollection of youth, thus blocking our possibilities of understanding younger people. At the same time we tend to negate the specific values of earlier stages. No wonder that youth always has a hard fight to sustain against the ressentiment of the older generation.

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L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 62-63
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
Each piece of money is a...

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

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Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2(c), pg. 145.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
3 weeks 6 days ago
Lamarck, sagacious as many of his...

Lamarck, sagacious as many of his views were, mingled them with so much that was crude and even absurd, as to neutralize the benefit which his originality might have effected had he been a more sober and cautious thinker…

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Ch.2, p. 125
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 2 weeks ago
We need to augment and amend...

We need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process.

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Herbert A. Simon (1986) in Preface to: Gilad & Kaish (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics, p. xvi.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
For there's no rood has not...

For there's no rood has not a star above it; The cordial quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree, As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole.

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Musketaquid, st. 5
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
For the kingdom of heaven is...

For the kingdom of heaven is with us today.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
2 months 1 week ago
How do you think the transition...

How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

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Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith
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Lucretius
Lucretius
3 months 3 weeks ago
A thing therefore…

A thing therefore never returns to nothing.

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Book I, line 248 (tr. Munro)
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 6 days ago
In the tragedies of the early...

In the tragedies of the early seventeenth century, madness too provided the dénouement, but it did so in liberating the truth. It still opened onto language, to a renewed form of speech, that of explanation and of the real regained. The most it could ever be was the penultimate moment of tragedy. Not the closing moment, as in Andromaque, where no truth appears, other than, in Delirium, the truth of a passion that finds its fullest, most perfect expression in madness.

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Part Two: 2. The Transcendence of Delirium
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Epicurus
Epicurus
4 months 1 day ago
A wise man, who puts himself...

A wise man, who puts himself under the government of reason, will be able to receive an injury with calmness, and to treat the person who committed it with lenity; for he will rank injuries among the casual events of life, and will prudently reflect that he can no more stop the natural current of human passions, than he can curb the stormy winds.

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David Pearce
David Pearce
2 weeks 6 days ago
So what is the alternative to...

So what is the alternative to traditional anthropocentric ethics? Antispeciesism is not the claim that "All Animals Are Equal", or that all species are of equal value, or that a human or a pig is equivalent to a mosquito. Rather the antispeciesist claims that, other things being equal, equally strong interests should count equally. Experiences that are subjectively negative or positive in hedonic tone to the same degree must count for the same.

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"The Antispeciesist Revolution", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Jul. 2013
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 2 weeks ago
Pure justice....

Pure justice emerges from symmetry applied human life, and human beings as ends in themselves.

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