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Cornel West
Cornel West
2 months 3 weeks ago
Well, as you know, I was...

Well, as you know, I was blessed to do over a hundred events for my dear brother [Bernie Sanders]. And this is the first time I've had a chance to publicly endorse him again, but yes, indeed. I'll be in his corner that we're going to win this time. And it has to do with the Martin Luther King like criteria of assessing a candidate namely the issues of militarism, poverty, materialism, and racism, xenophobia in all of its forms that includes any kind of racism as you know against black people, brown people, yellow people, anybody, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Kashmirians, Tibetans and so forth. So that there's no doubt that the my dear brother Bernie stands shoulders above any of the other candidates running in the Democratic primary when it comes to that Martin Luther King-like standards or criteria.

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Quoted in: Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism, The Intercept, Mehdi Hasan,
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 4 weeks ago
Education to true religion is the...

Education to true religion is the final task of the new education.

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General Nature of New Eduction p. 38
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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 month 3 weeks ago
The eyes see only what the...

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin‎ (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 4 weeks ago
In a world, man must create...

In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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Friedrich Schlegel
Friedrich Schlegel
2 months ago
The divine origin of man, as...

The divine origin of man, as taught by Vedanta, IS continually inculcated, to stimulate his efforts to return, to animate him in the struggle, and incite him to consider a reunion and reincorporation with Divinity as the one primary object of every action and reaction. Even the loftiest philosophy of the European, the idealism of reason as it is set forth by the Greek philosophers, appears in comparison with the abundant light and vigor of Oriental idealism like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun, faltering and feeble and ever ready to be extinguished.

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quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 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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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 3 days ago
Universality is....
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
If God had looked into our...

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

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Pt II, p. 217
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
I don't believe in an afterlife,...

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore
1 month 3 weeks ago
By far the most valuable things,...

By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may roughly be described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects. No one, probably, who has asked himself the question, has ever doubted that personal affection and the appreciation of what is beautiful in Art or Nature, are good in themselves; nor, if we consider strictly what things are worth having purely for their own sakes, does it appear probable that any one will think that anything else has nearly so much value as the things which are included under these two heads.

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Principia Ethica (1903; revised edition, Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 4 weeks ago
Every intrusion of the spirit that...

Every intrusion of the spirit that says, "I'm as good as you" into our personal and spiritual life is to be resisted just as jealously as every intrusion of bureaucracy or privilege into our politics. Hierarchy within can alone preserve egalitarianism without. Romantic attacks on democracy will come again. We shall never be safe unless we already understand in our hearts all that the anti-democrats can say, and have provided for it better than they. Human nature will not permanently endure flat equality if it is extended from its proper political field into the more real, more concrete fields within. Let us wear equality; but let us undress every night.

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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
2 months 2 weeks ago
Being asked what learning is…..

Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 4 weeks ago
Science raises itself above all Ages...

Science raises itself above all Ages and all Times, embracing and apprehending the ONE UNCHANGING TIME as the higher source of all Ages and Epochs, and grasping that vast idea in its free, unbounded comprehension.

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p. 11
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months ago
The rich man... is always sold...

The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 1 week ago
books are only what we want...

books are only what we want them to be; rather, what we read into them.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 1 day ago
Whoever has used what means he...

Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ's kingdom; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.

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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months ago
Any man more right than his...

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
You could attach prices to thoughts....

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

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p. 52e
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months ago
They defend their errors as if...

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 6 days ago
All media are extensions of some...

All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
There remains the final reflection, how...

There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

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Preface, p. 16 (Corrected Edition)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
2 weeks 4 days ago
I finished the Iliad to-day... I...

I finished the Iliad to-day... I never admired the old fellow so much, or was so strongly moved by him. What a privilege genius like his enjoys! I could not tear myself away. I read the last five books at a stretch during my walk to-day, and was at last forced to turn into a bypath, lest the parties of walkers should see me blubbering for imaginary beings, the creations of a ballad-maker who has been dead two thousand seven hundred years. What is the power and glory of Caesar and Alexander to that? Think what it would be to be assured that the inhabitants of Monomotapa would weep over one's writings.

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Anno Domini 4551! Letter to his niece Margaret (August 1851), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume II (1876), pp. 186-187
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months 4 days ago
Around us knowledge has been extinguished,...

Around us knowledge has been extinguished, and recruitment of men of religion and men of law has ceased; that is to say, we have made Muslim society much more miserable, more disordered, more ignorant, and more barbarous than it had been before knowing us.

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Travail sur l'Algerie, Travels in Algeria p. 185
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
1 month 2 weeks ago
In the ice of solitude man...

In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

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p. 150
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 4 weeks ago
An act of the mind of...

An act of the mind of which we are conscious, as such, is called freedom. An act without consciousness of action is called spontaneity. I by no means assume as necessary any immediate consciousness of the act, but merely, that on subsequent reflection thou shouldst perceive it to be an act. The higher question of what it is that prevents any such state of indecision, or any consciousness of the act, we may perhaps subsequently be able to solve. This act of the mind is called thought and it is said that thought is a spontaneous act, to distinguish it from sensation, in which the mind is merely receptive and passive.

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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 44
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
There is less trouble and trauma...

There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 6 days ago
Physiologically, man in the normal use...

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. One of the merits of motivation research has been the revelation of man's sex relation to the motorcar.

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(p.46)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 weeks ago
The alleged power to charm down...

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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Behavior
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Publilius Syrus
Publilius Syrus
3 weeks 5 days ago
For him who loves labor, there...

For him who loves labor, there is always something to do.

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Maxim 219
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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 3 weeks ago
Lassalle. It would be a pity...

Lassalle. It would be a pity about the fellow because of his great ability, but these goings-on are really too bad. He was always a man one had to keep a devilish sharp eye on and as a real Jew from the Slav border was always to exploit anyone for his own private ends on party pretexts. And then his urge to push his way into polite society, de parvenir, if only for appearance's sake, to disguise the greasy Breslau Jew with all kinds of pomade and paint was always repulsive.

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Letter to Karl Marx (7 March 1856), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856-59 (2010), p. 27
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
1 month 2 weeks ago
There is only one thing that...

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1 week 5 days ago
I do not believe that sheer...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.

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Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 (1973), p. 3
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
A man's thinking goes on within...

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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Pt II, p. 189
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 2 days ago
To what extent can truth endure...
To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 1 day ago
The boundaries of the species, whereby...

The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.

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Book III, Ch. 6, sec. 37
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 2 days ago
To these spurious principles must be...

To these spurious principles must be added some others of great affinity with them... First, that by which we assume that everything in the universe is done according to the order of nature, which principle by Epicurus was proclaimed without any restriction, and by all other philosophers unanimously with extremely rare exceptions, not to be admitted but from supreme necessity.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
What every man who loves his...

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 1 week ago
Do not imagine that it is...

Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.

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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope
2 months 2 weeks ago
On reaching Athens he fell in...

On reaching Athens he fell in with Antisthenes. Being repulsed by him, because he never welcomed pupils, by sheer persistence Diogenes wore him out. Once when he stretched out his staff against him, the pupil offered his head with the words, "Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to keep me away from you, so long as I think you've something to say."

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Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 21,
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 4 weeks ago
Undeterred by this examination, the French...

Undeterred by this examination, the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789 in the Cercle Social, which in the middle of its course had as its chief representatives Leclerc and Roux, and which finally with Babeuf's conspiracy was temporarily defeated, gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
3 months 3 days ago
Human infirmity in moderating….

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

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Part IV, Preface; translation by R. H. M. Elwes
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
The source of an emotion is...

The source of an emotion is very difficult to grasp, but it comes to just that. That holds for all phenomena, for faith, etc. Why did it begin, how did it develop? and so forth-only he who has the gift of divination can perceive where it really comes from. But it is not accessible to reflection.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
3 months 2 days ago
Every substance is a world apart….

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

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Discours de métaphysique, 1686
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
When he entered into the Whig...

When he entered into the Whig party, he did not conceive that they pretended to any discoveries. They did not affect to be better Whigs, than those were who lived in the days in which principle was put to the test. Some of the Whigs of those days were then living. They were what the Whigs had been at the Revolution; what they had been during the reign of queen Anne; what they had been at the accession of the present royal family.

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p. 409
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month 3 weeks ago
We can never legitimately cut loose...

We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.

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J.B. Priestley, Times Literary Supplement, London
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 1 day ago
Good and evil, reward and punishment,...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

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Sec. 54
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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 2 weeks ago
The measure of a man's life...

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 weeks 4 days ago
Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment....

Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment.

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Pt. I, ch. II.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
But what is liberty without wisdom,...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 month 3 weeks ago
I took some pains to convince...

I took some pains to convince you that the Whigs, as a party in the state, were of the highest value to the public welfare, and constituted the party to which a liberal-minded and enlightened man would adhere.

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Letter to H. B. Rosser (7 March 1820), quoted in C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Vol. II (1876), p. 263
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