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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
It seems that sin is geographical....

It seems that sin is geographical. From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of "sin" is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary.

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A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 283
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
It is an understatement to say...

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 weeks ago
Entertainment and learning are not opposites;...

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

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pp. 66-67
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
It pays to be obvious, especially...

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 3 weeks ago
An increase in the productivity of...

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

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Notebook IV, The Chapter on Capital, p. 308.
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 3 weeks ago
Perhaps then we must begin with...

Perhaps then we must begin with such facts as are known to us from individual experience. It is necessary therefore that the person who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and politics generally, should have received a good moral training.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 weeks ago
A pair of statements may be...

A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it thunders" is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.

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p. 268
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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
1 month 1 week ago
Fear and destructiveness are the major...

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

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The Authoritarian Personality (1950), p. 976, co-written with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
Plato was synthesis of Europe and...

Plato was synthesis of Europe and Asia, and a decidedly Oriental element pervades his philosophy, giving it a sunrise color.

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Quoted in Swami Abhedananda, India and Her People, 6th ed., Calcutta: Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 1945
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
1 month 1 week ago
My path was not the normal...

My path was not the normal one of professors of philosophy. I did not intend to become a doctor of philosophy by studying philosophy (I am in fact a doctor of medicine) nor did I by any means, intend originally to qualify for a professorship by a dissertation on philosophy. To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Since my schooldays, however, I was guided by philosophical questions. Philosophy seemed to me the supreme, even the sole, concern of man. Yet a certain awe kept me from making it my profession.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 3 weeks ago
The husband who decides…

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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La Femme Qui a Raison, Act 1, scene 2, 1759
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
A life devoted to science is...

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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Ch. 2: The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 weeks ago
I think that I have succeeded...

I think that I have succeeded in making it clear that this doctrine gives room for explanations of many facts which without it are absolutely and hopelessly inexplicable; and further that it carries along with it the following doctrines: first, a logical realism of the most pronounced type; second, objective idealism; third, tychism, with its consequent thoroughgoing evolutionism. We also notice that the doctrine presents no hindrences to spiritual influences, such as some philosophies are felt to do.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 1 week ago
The philosophy of Bergson, which is...

The philosophy of Bergson, which is a spiritualist restoration, essentially mystical, medieval, Quixotesque, has been called a demi-mondaine philosophy. Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane. Mundane - yes, a philosophy for the world and not for philosophers, just as chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. The world desires illusion (mundus vult decipi) - either the illusion antecedent to reason, which is poetry, or the illusion subsequent to reason, which is religion. And Machiavelli has said that whosoever wishes to delude will always find someone willing to be deluded. Blessed are they who are easily befooled!

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
What I will be remembered for...

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks 1 day ago
Giving alms is only a virtuous...

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
Acquisitiveness - the wish to possess...

Acquisitiveness - the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods - is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 3 weeks ago
The secret of being….

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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"Sixième discours: sur la nature de l'homme," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler
3 weeks 3 days ago
I am much more open about...

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men. "As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up" in Haaretz.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 3 weeks ago
Philosophy is the science of truth.

Philosophy is the science of truth.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 2 weeks ago
The same energy of character which...

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

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Letter 19
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
Philosophy seems to me on the...

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

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Letter to Gilbert Murray, December 28, 1902
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 week 1 day ago
The chalk is no unimportant element...

The chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust, and it impresses a peculiar stamp, varying with the conditions to which it is exposed, on the scenery of the districts in which it occurs.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 weeks 4 days ago
As a liberal I would hesitate...

As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

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As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
2 weeks 2 days ago
To train and educate the rising...

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
6 days ago
Many conflicts within Third World countries...

Many conflicts within Third World countries are related to the practice of exploiting resources faster than nature can renew them or diverting them away from where people need them. Dams in every society have become major sources of conflict. As water scarcity grows, neighbors, families turn against each other.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months ago
What defects women have, we must...

What defects women have, we must check them for in private, gently by word of mouth, for woman is a frail vessel.

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Table Talk, quoted in Luther On "Woman"
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David Hume
David Hume
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is a great mortification to...

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.

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Part I, Essay 15: The Epicurean
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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
1 month ago
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity...

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

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Chapter 15, Inductive Logic, p. 142.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 month 4 days ago
Moral activity? There is scarcely such...

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
3 months 2 weeks ago
It happens that the stage sets...

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 2 weeks ago
Artist and perceiver alike begin with...

Artist and perceiver alike begin with what may be called a total seizure, an inclusive qualitative whole not yet articulated, not distinguished into members.

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p. 199
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
There's nothing like deduction. We've determined...

There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 2 weeks ago
Unless man have a natural bent...

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
When you have understood that nothing...

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 3 weeks ago
Without effort and change, human life...

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is not because men's desires...

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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On Liberty, 1859
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 week 1 day ago
To a person uninstructed in natural...

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

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On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1854) p. 29
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 day ago
The logic now in use serves...

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Aphorism 7
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 3 weeks ago
[E]xperience has taught me that those...

[E]xperience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

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(p. 262)
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 3 weeks ago
In these frequent talks about the...

In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words. He also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar's Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, McCrie's Life of John Knox, and even Sewel's and Rutty's Histories of the Quakers. He was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcoming them: of such works I remember Beaver's African Memoranda, and Collins's account of the first settlement of New South Wales.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
1 month 2 weeks ago
Childhood lasts all through life. It...

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

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Introduction, sect. 6
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
Touch me not; for I am...

Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

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John 20:17 (KJV)
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 2 days ago
We say that someone occupies an...

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 week 1 day ago
Life is too short to occupy...

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture.

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Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p. 498; Browne Vol 2, p. 159
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 1 day ago
It would be an....
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The kingdom of heaven is like...

The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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13:33 (KJV)
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
2 weeks 4 days ago
Darwin made it possible to be...

Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

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Chapter 1 "Explaining the Very Improbable" (p. 6)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
Society undergoes continual changes; it is...

Society undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet; he has a fine Geneva watch, but cannot tell the hour by the sun.

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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 1 week ago
I do not open up...

I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

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