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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
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Nietzsche understands the aesthetic state of...

Nietzsche understands the aesthetic state of the observer and recipient on the basis of the state of the creator. Thus the effect of the artwork is nothing else than a reawakening of the creator's state in the one who enjoys the artwork. Observation of art follows in the wake of creation. Nietzsche says (SM, 821), "-the effect of artworks is arousal of the art-creating state, rapture."

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Epictetus
Epictetus
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Every habit and faculty is confirmed...

Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running.

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Book II, ch. 18, 1
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
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Every man has his dignity. I'm...

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
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Nobody should ever doubt that in...

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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William Godwin
William Godwin
3 weeks 3 days ago
You rejoice in having made a...

You rejoice in having made a convert to Atheism. I think there is something unnatural in a zeal of proselytism in an Atheist. I do not believe in an intellectual God, a God made after the image of man. In the vulgar acceptation of the word, therefore, I think a man is right who does not believe in God, but I am also persuaded that a man is wrong who is without religion.

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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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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 4 weeks ago
The little honesty that exists among...

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
For those who want 'to change...

For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
3 weeks 1 day 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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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
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And all the time - such...

And all the time - such is the tragi-comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more "drive", or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or "creativity". In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
2 months 1 week ago
Love and the gracious…

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...one can no more be without the otherthan the reasoning mind without its reason.

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Chapter XVI (tr. Mark Musa)
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
2 weeks 3 days ago
As the oil is in the...

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

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Cisero
Cisero
2 months 2 weeks ago
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the...

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.

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This is also from the 1965 essay by Justice Millard Caldwell. It is not clear if this is based in any specific dialogue.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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Life seems to me essentially passion,...

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

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Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912, as quoted in Clark The life of Bertrand Russell (1976), p. 174
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus
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Hope is the only good that...

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

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A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
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Confucius
Confucius
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To no one but the Son...

To no one but the Son of Heaven does it belong to order ceremonies, to fix the measures, and to determine the written characters.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 1 week ago
If the room is smoky, if...

If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open.

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Book I, ch. 25, 18.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 3 weeks ago
If there are different Notions of...

If there are different Notions of the science of Philosophy, it is the true Notion alone that puts us in a position to understand the writings of philosophers who have worked in the knowledge of it. For in thought, and particularly in speculative thought, comprehension means something quite different from understanding the grammatical sense of the words alone, and also from understanding them in the region of ordinary conception only. Hence we may possess a knowledge of the assertions, propositions, or of the opinions of philosophers; we may have occupied ourselves largely with the grounds of and deductions from these opinions, and the main point in all that we have done may be wanting - the comprehension of the propositions.

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First divsion, Chapter I. - The Metaphysics of the Understanding…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The virtues of society are the...

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Circles
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
1 month 3 weeks ago
The reasons for legal intervention in...

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children, apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind, the lower animals.

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Book V, Chapter 11, Section 9
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Jesus
Jesus
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He that is without sin among...

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

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8:7 (King James Version)
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
1 month 4 weeks ago
I want you to read the...

I want you to read the true system of the heart, drafted by a decent man and published under another name. I do not want you to be biased against good and useful books merely because a man unworthy of reading them has the audacity to call himself the Author.

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First Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 day ago
Do you see this egg? With...

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. What is it, this egg, before the seed is introduced into it? An insentient mass. And after the seed has been introduced to into it? What is it then? An insentient mass. For what is the seed itself other than a crude and inanimate fluid? How is this mass to make a transition to a different structure, to sentience, to life? Through heat. And what will produce that heat in it? Motion. "Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot", as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker, and The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (2004) by Louis K Dupré, p. 30 Variant translation: See this egg. It is with this that all the schools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

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As quoted in Diderot, Reason and Resonance (1982) by Élisabeth de Fontenay, p. 217
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The sure conviction that we could...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
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A truly powerful holder of power...

A truly powerful holder of power does not simply elicit agreement, but enthusiasm and excitement.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Someone who knows too much finds...

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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Epictetus
Epictetus
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Who are those people by whom...

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these about whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

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Book I, ch. 21, 4.
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William James
William James
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Need and struggle are what excite...

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.

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"Is Life Worth Living?"
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Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali
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The lowest degree of education is...

The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in the surgeon's cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping glass does not essentially alter the honey. The natural aversion from it in such a case rests on popular ignorance, arising from the fact that the cupping-glass is made only for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood is impure because it is in the cupping-glass, and are not aware that the impurity is due to a property.

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III. The Classes of Seekers, p. 31.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 4 weeks ago
These people who have fled inward...
These people who have fled inward for their freedom also have to live outwardly, become visible, let themselves be seen; they are united with mankind through countless ties of blood, residence, education, fatherland, chance, the importunity of others; they are likewise presupposed to harbour countless opinions simply because these are the ruling opinions of the time; every gesture which is not clearly a denial counts as agreement.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 4 days ago
Malice sucks up the greatest part...

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

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Of Repentance, Book III, Ch. 2
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I...

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

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Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 4 days ago
...so it is with human reason,...

...so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

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On Justification CCXCIV
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
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Like monarchy, monotheism had a martial...

Like monarchy, monotheism had a martial origin. "It is only on the march and it time of war," says Robertson Smith in The Prophets of Israel, "that a nomad people feels any urgent need of a central authority, and so it came about that in the first beginnings of national organization, centering in the sanctuary of the ark, Israel was thought of mainly as a host of Jehovah. the very name of Israel is martial, and means 'God (El) fighteth,' and Jehovah in the Old Testament is Iahwé Cebāôth - the Jehovah of the armies of Israel. It was on the battlefield that Jehovah's presence was most clearly realized; but in primitive nations the leader in time of war is also the natural judge in time of peace."

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Voltaire
Voltaire
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Where there is friendship…

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Letter to Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, 1734
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 months 4 weeks ago
What does man actually know about...
What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him even concerning his own body in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 3 weeks ago
But your crime will be there,...

But your crime will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

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Clytemnestra to her daughter Electra, Act 1
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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When I come to my own...

When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one.

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"Is There a God?", 1952
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 4 days ago
Concerning the female sorcerer. Roman law...

Concerning the female sorcerer. Roman law also prescribes this. Why does the law name women more than men here, even though men are also guilty of this? Because women are more susceptible to those superstitions of Satan; take Eve, for example. They are commonly called "wise women." Let them be killed.

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Sermon on Exodus, 1526, WA XVI, p. 551 as quoted in Luther on Women: A Sourcebook, edited by Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, (2003), p. 231
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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Cock-sure certainty is the source of...

Cock-sure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly - which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.

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History as an Art (1954), p. 9
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
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It appears to me to be...

It appears to me to be indisputable that he who I am to-day derives, by a continuous series of states of consciousness, from him who was in my body twenty years ago. Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 3 weeks ago
The world is his, who has...

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 3 weeks 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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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 week 2 days ago
'You', the ego, live in your...

You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets -- the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
3 weeks 3 days ago
The modern state, in its essence...

The modern state, in its essence and objectives, is necessarily a military state, and a military state necessarily becomes an aggressive state. If it does not conquer others it will itself be conquered, for the simple reason that wherever force exists, it absolutely must be displayed or put into action. From this again it follows that the modern state must without fail be huge and powerful; that is the indispensable condition for its preservation.

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
3 weeks 2 days ago
What distinct meaning can attach to...

What distinct meaning can attach to saying that an idea in the past in any way affects an idea in the future, from which it is completely detached?

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
2 months 3 weeks ago
To the contemporary, Christ can only...

To the contemporary, Christ can only say: I will offer myself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world and for yours also. Is this easier to believe now than when he has done it, has offered himself? Or is the comfort greater because of his saying that he will do it than it is because of his having done it? There is no greater love than this, that someone lays down his life for another, but when is it easier to believe, and when is the comfort greater: when the loving one says he will do it, or when he has done it?

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 week 4 days ago
The oneness of the universe, and...

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
1 month 2 weeks ago
The principles of ethics come from...

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

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Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 149
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is remarkable that among all...

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

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