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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 week 4 days ago
The particularity (Jeweiligkeit) of the places...

The particularity (Jeweiligkeit) of the places and their manifoldness are grounded in space, and the particularity of the time points is grounded in time. That basic characteristic of the thing, that essential determination of the thingness of the thing to be this one (je dieses), is grounded in the essence of space and time. Our question "What is a thing?" includes, therefore, the questions "What is space?" and "What is time?" It is customary The particularity (Jeweiligkeit) os the places.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 weeks 2 days ago
We assert then that nothing has...

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and - if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it - we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Often abbreviated to: Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. Variant translation: We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The Spirit of the Lord is...

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Luke 4:18-19 NIV

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 weeks ago
If the Jew did not exist,...

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks 2 days ago
I feel like that intellectual but...

I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty. In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 weeks 2 days ago
When we have chosen the vocation...

When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
1 month ago
No man is free who is...

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 weeks 1 day ago
What point of morals, of manners,...

What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 2 weeks ago
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 weeks ago
What is now common to all...

What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. [Highest Common Factor], and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

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William James
William James
2 weeks 1 day ago
A difference which makes no difference...

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 weeks 4 days ago
As the analysis of a substantial...

As the analysis of a substantial composite terminates only in a part which is not a whole, that is, in a simple part, so synthesis terminates only in a whole which is not a part, that is, the world.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks 2 days ago
[One] must look into hell before...

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
6 days ago
Bats ... present a range of...

Bats ... present a range of activity and a sensory apparatus so different from ours that the problem I want to pose is exceptionally vivid (though it certainly could be raised with other species). Even without the benefit of philosophical reflection, anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an excited bat knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks 2 days ago
When I was a boy, I...

When I was a boy, I had a clock with a pendulum that could be lifted off. I found that the clock went very much faster without the pendulum. If the main purpose of a clock is to go, the clock was the better for losing its pendulum. True, it could no longer tell the time, but that did not matter if one could teach oneself to be indifferent to the passage of time. The linguistic philosophy which cares only about language and not about the world, is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 weeks 2 days ago
If human nature were unchangeable, as...

If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
1 month ago
Whatever you would make habitual, practice...

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 weeks 4 days ago
It is absurd to excite reason...

It is absurd to excite reason against the primary postulates of pure time, as, for example, continuity, etc., since they follow from laws prior and superior to which nothing is found, and since reason herself in the use of the principle of contradiction cannot dispense with the support of this concept, so primitive and original is it.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 4 days ago
You could attach prices to ideas....

You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. ... And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
2 weeks 6 days ago
And when all the world is...

And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre, which provideth for every man, by Victory or Death. The Second Part, Chapter 30, p. 181

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
How then doth David in spirit...

How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? 22:43-45 (KJV)

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 weeks 2 days ago
The object of this Essay is...

The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress reflection and the experience of life. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 5 days ago
Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in...

Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in the state carriage of Yau,Wear the ceremonial cap of Chan,Let the music be the Shiu with its pantomimes.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
It seemed to him [Euphemius] it...

It seemed to him [Euphemius] it would be a brilliant notion to call in an outside force to fight on his behalf. This same brilliant notion has occurred to participants in civil wars uncounted times in history and it has ended in catastrophe just about every time, since those called in invariably take over for themselves. Of all history's lessons, this seems to be the plainest, and the most frequently ignored.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 weeks ago
What we call Man's power over...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 weeks 5 days ago
By this means all knowledge degenerates...

By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or deceitfulness of our understanding, and according to the simplicity or intricacy of the question.

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John Locke
John Locke
2 weeks 3 days ago
Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress...

Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.

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William James
William James
2 weeks 1 day ago
Every way of classifying a thing...

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 weeks ago
My dear Wormwood, I note what...

My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialist friend. But are you not being a trifle naive? It sounds as if you suppose that argument was the way to keep him out of the enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived a few centuries earlier.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 week 4 days ago
So in the end when one...

So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
In my fiction I am careful...

In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 weeks ago
Never aim at more precision than......

Never aim at more precision than... required by the problem...

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 weeks 4 days ago
Even if a civil society were...

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 weeks 2 days ago
Money, then, appears as this overturning...

Money, then, appears as this overturning power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc., which claim to be essences in themselves. It transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence and intelligence into idiocy.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
We can hope that the ways...

We can hope that the ways of peace will attract the Arabic nations, for their territory and opportunities are broad enough for immeasurable advance, if the energies vented in spleen, are turned instead to a modernisation of the technology, a restoration of the soil, and a renovation of the economic, social, and political structure of those great and venerable lands.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
1 month 2 weeks ago
Most men pursue pleasure with such...

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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Plato
Plato
1 month 1 week ago
The beginning in every task is...

The beginning in every task is the chief thing.

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David Hume
David Hume
2 weeks 5 days ago
If the whole of natural theology,...

If the whole of natural theology, as some people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, that the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence: If this proposition be not capable of extension, variation, or more particular explication: If it affords no inference that affects human life, or can be the source of any action or forbearance: And if the analogy, imperfect as it is, can be carried no farther than to the human intelligence, and cannot be transferred, with any appearance of probability, to the other qualities of the mind; if this really be the case, what can the most inquisitive, contemplative, and religious man do more than give a plain, philosophical assent to the proposition, as often as it occurs, and believe that the arguments on which it is established exceed the objections which lie against it?

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 weeks 2 days ago
Lastly, we must also know what...

Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 5 days ago
It is characteristic of the most...

It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
People are entirely too disbelieving of...

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
1 month 2 weeks ago
Dogmatics must be designed in this...

Dogmatics must be designed in this way. Above all, every science must vigorously lay hold of its own beginning and not live in complicated relations with other sciences. If dogmatics begins by wanting to explain sinfulness or by wanting to prove its actuality, no dogmatics will come out of it, but the entire existence of dogmatics will become problematic and vague.

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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
1 month 5 days ago
Character is destiny....

Character is destiny.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 weeks 4 days ago
It is precisely in knowing its...

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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Confucius
Confucius
1 month 5 days ago
Of all people, girls and...

Of all people, girls and servants are the most difficult to behave to. If you are familiar with them, they lose their humility. If you maintain a reserve towards them, they are discontented.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 weeks 3 days ago
Life is bristling…

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
1 month 1 week ago
I joke sometimes to the effect...

I joke sometimes to the effect that when I approach a part of a book where I must explain something I don't understand, I just type faster and faster and faster. Then, when I get to the part I don't understand, sheer inertia pushes me through. That's not literally true, of course, but there's something to it psychologically.

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
1 week 4 days ago
Enjoyment of the work consists in...

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 weeks 2 days ago
Anyone who studies present and ancient...

Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events. But since these matters are neglected or not understood by those who read, or, if understood, remain unknown to those who govern, the result is that the same problems always exist in every era.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 weeks 1 day ago
The propagandist's purpose is to make...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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