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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
5 months 1 week ago
I maintain that inversion is the...

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
1 month 1 week ago
Turn thy thoughts now to the...

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
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Ten thousand do not turn the...

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

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William James
William James
5 months 1 week ago
The moral flabbiness born of the...

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.

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To H. G. Wells, 9/11/1906
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Democritus
Democritus
5 months 3 days ago
The hopes of the right-minded may...

The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.

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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
4 months 1 week ago
In reality, the law always contains...

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.

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"The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry," in Popular Scientific Lectures (1898), p. 192
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 months 2 weeks ago
Taxing is an easy business. Any...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

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Iamblichus
Iamblichus
1 month 1 week ago
They also gave it the title...

They also gave it the title of "opinion," because truth and falsity lie in opinion. And they called it "movement," "generation," "change," "division," "length," "multiplication," "addition," "kinship," "relativity," "the ratio in proportionality." For the relation of two numbers is of every conceivable form.

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On the Dyad
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Friedrich Schelling
Friedrich Schelling
4 months 2 weeks ago
It is easy to see that...

It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
5 months 1 week ago
A real subjection is born mechanically...

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations.

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Part Four, Complete and austere institutions
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
Rejoice in the things....
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 months 4 days ago
How does the poet speak to...

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?

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Burns.
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
2 months 3 weeks ago
Religion holds the solution to all...

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. When threats force him to look at the limitations of his human power, he's often ready to seek his spiritual one. What we need is patience and awe of God's plan in human history!

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In Quote: The Weekly Digest, vol. 38, no. 19 (8 November 1959) p. 13
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
5 months 1 week ago
Wherever the want of clothing forced...

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg. 49.
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Horace
Horace
5 months 3 days ago
This to the right….

This to the right, that to the left hand strays, and all are wrong, but wrong in different ways.

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Book II, satire iii, line 50 (trans. Conington)
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
6 months 2 weeks ago
Job endured everything

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
1 month 1 week ago
But for my part (Continues Carneades)...

But for my part (Continues Carneades) what my Indignation at this Un-philosophical way of teaching Principles has now extorted from me, is meant chiefly to excuse my self, if I shall hereafter oppose any Particular Opinion or assertion, that some Follower of Paracelsus or any Eminent Artist may pretend not to be his Masters. For, as I told you long since, I am not Oblig'd to examine private mens writings, (which were a Labour as endless as unprofitable) being only engag'd to examine those Opinions about the Tria Prima, which I find those Chymists I have met with to agree in most: And I Doubt not but my Arguments against their Doctrine will be in great part easily enough applicable ev'n to those private Opinions, which they do not so directly and expresly oppose.

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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 months 1 week ago
It is more easy…

It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
3 months 4 weeks ago
The bourgeoisie is defined as the...

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

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p. 138
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 1 week ago
The state of health is a...

The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
4 months 3 weeks ago
If thou intend to do any...

If thou intend to do any good; tarry not till to-morrow! for thou knowest not what may chance thee this night.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 3 weeks ago
Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it...

Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

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p. 92
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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
2 months 3 weeks ago
The history of almost every civilization...

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

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Abridgement of Vols. 1-6 by D. C. Somervell
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
5 months 2 weeks ago
Men remain in their present low...

Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.

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p. 49
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
4 months 6 days ago
Christian Kings may erre in deducing...

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

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The Third Part, Chapter 43, p. 330
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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
2 months 1 week ago
It's also been attacked from the...

It's also been attacked from the left by people... I teach students at Stanford, and many of them think that liberalism is... the doctrine of their parents' or their grandparents' generation, but it's really not relevant to Gen Z younger people who are impatient for social justice and social change that liberalism is not providing.

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John Rawls
John Rawls
5 months 1 week ago
An individual who finds that he...

An individual who finds that he enjoys seeing others in positions of lesser liberty understands that he has no claim whatever to this enjoyment.

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Chapter I, Section 6, pg. 31
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
3 months 3 weeks ago
You've got the temperament of a...

You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write books. You don't have anything to do with civilization. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books -- people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do?

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p. 200
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
3 months 3 weeks ago
Those who will not worship at...

Those who will not worship at the shrine of money, need not hope for recognition. On the other hand, they will also not have to think other people's thoughts or wear other people's political clothes. They will not have to proclaim as true that which is false, nor praise that as humanitarian which is brutal.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
4 months 1 week ago
Here and there it happened in...

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

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The Secret of the Golden Flower, ibid.
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Chrysippus
Chrysippus
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Wise people are in want of...

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

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As quoted in Moral Epistles by Seneca, iii. 10.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
3 months 2 days ago
It is our deliberate opinion that...

It is our deliberate opinion that the French Revolution, in spite of all its crimes and follies, was a great blessing to mankind.

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'Sir James Mackintosh', The Edinburgh Review (July 1835), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. II (1843), p. 215
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chanakya
chanakya
2 months 3 weeks ago
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is...

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
4 months 1 week ago
I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy,...

I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 months 1 week ago
The stock market was created by...

The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press.

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(p. 106)
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
5 months 1 week ago
To be ignorant of the past...

To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child.

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Cicero
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Melissus of Samos
Melissus of Samos
1 month 1 week ago
…nothing is stronger…

...nothing is stronger than true reality.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
5 months 1 week ago
Science is not a system of...

Science is not a system of certain, or well established, statements; nor is it a statement which steadily advances towards state of finality. Our science is not knowledge (epistēmē): it can newer claim to have attained truth, or even substitute for it, such as probability. . . . We do not know; we can only guess.

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Ch. 10 "Corroboration, or How a Theory Stands up to Tests", section 85: The Path of Science, p. 278.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
4 months 2 weeks ago
There never was a bad man...

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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Speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings (18 February 1788), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 59
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Epictetus
Epictetus
5 months 4 weeks ago
Know, first, who you are, and...

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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Book III, ch. 1, 25.
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Edward Said
Edward Said
3 months 3 weeks ago
As a way of maintaining relative...

As a way of maintaining relative intellectual independence, having the attitude of an amateur instead of a professional is a better course.

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p. 87
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
5 months 3 weeks ago
We must learn how to imitate...

We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.

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in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
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Porphyry
Porphyry
4 months 3 weeks ago
The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts...

The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
1 month 1 week ago
Northward of the Chesapeak you may...

Northward of the Chesapeak you may find here and there an opponent to your doctrine as you may find here and there a robber and a murderer, but in no greater number. In that part of America, there being but few slaves, they can easily disencumber themselves of them, and emancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland. In Maryland I do not find such a disposition to begin the redress of this enormity as in Virginia. This is the next state to which we may turn our eyes for the interesting spectacle of justice in conflict with avarice and oppression: a conflict wherein the sacred side is gaining daily recruits from the influx into office of young men grown and growing up. These have sucked in the principles of liberty as it were with their mother's milk, and it is to them I look with anxiety to turn the fate of this question.

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Wade, ibid.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
1 month 1 week ago
Lenin's thesis is that the party...

Lenin's thesis is that the party Central Committee should have the privilege of naming all the local committees of the party. It should have the right to appoint the effective organs of all local bodies from Geneva to Liege, from Tomsk to Irkutsk. It should also have the right to impose on all of them its own ready-made rules of party conduct. It should have the right to rule without appeal on such questions as the dissolution and reconstitution of local organizations. This way, the Central Committee could determine, to suit itself, the composition of the highest party organs. The Central Committee would be the only thinking element in the party. All other groupings would be its executive limbs.

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Empedocles
Empedocles
5 months 3 days ago
With deep roots….

With deep roots Ether plunged into earth.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
5 months 2 weeks ago
The education of the common people...

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

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Chapter I, Part III, p. 845.
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
5 months 4 days ago
Make thyself pure, 0 righteous man!...

Make thyself pure, 0 righteous man! Anyone in the world here below can win purity for himself, namely, when he cleanses himself with Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
6 months 1 week ago
It is because you yourself fear...

It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 months 1 week ago
An appeal to his alarm is...

An appeal to his alarm is never a good plan to rid oneself of a spirited young man.

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The Pavilion on the Links, ch. III.
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