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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
8 months 1 week ago
Faith looks to the word and...

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
6 months 1 week ago
Even though the model referred to...

Even though the model referred to satisfies the theory, etc., it is 'unintended'; and we recognize that it is unintended from the description through which it is given (as in the intuitionist case). Models are not lost noumenal waifs looking for someone to name them; they are constructions within our theory itself. and they have names from birth.

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Models and Reality
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
5 months 2 weeks ago
A man possessed of splendid talents,...

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
4 months 1 day ago
Children till 10. years old to...

Children till 10. years old to serve as nurses. from 10. to 16. the boys make nails, the girls spin. at 16. go into the ground or learn trades.

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Jefferson's Farm Book as quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine,
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
4 months 2 weeks ago
Octavia lost Marcellus, whom both his...

Octavia lost Marcellus, whom both his father-in-law and his uncle had begun to depend upon, and to place upon his shoulders the weight of the empire - a young man of keen intelligence and firm character, frugal and moderate in his desires to an extent which deserved especial admiration in one so young and so wealthy, strong to endure labour, averse to indulgence, and able to bear whatever burden his uncle might choose to lay, or I may say to pile upon his shoulders. Augustus had well chosen him as a foundation, for he would not have given way under any weight, however excessive.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
6 months 3 weeks ago
Each of us believes, quite unconsciously...

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.

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Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim
3 months 4 weeks ago
The particular conception of ideology operates...

The particular conception of ideology operates primarily with a psychology of interests, while the total conception uses a more formal functional analysis, without any reference to motivations, confining itself to an objective description of the structural differences in minds operating in different social settings. The former assumes that this or that interest is the cause of a given lie or deception. The latter presupposes simply that there is a correspondence between a given social situation and a given perspective, point of view, or apperception mass. In this case, while an analysis of constellations of interests may often be necessary it is not to establish causal connections but to characterize the total situation. Thus interest psychology tends to be displaced by an analysis of the correspondence between the situation to be known and the forms of knowledge.

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Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
4 months 3 weeks ago
IF the passions and characters of...

IF the passions and characters of man were not subject, like the material kingdoms, to distribution in series of groups, man would be out of unity with the universe; there would be duplicity of system in creation, and incoherence between the material and the passional worlds. If man would attain to social uniy, he should seek for the means in the serial order, to which God has subject all nature.

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Le nouveau monde amoureux
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John Searle
John Searle
6 months 4 days ago
I have only one real message...

I have only one real message in this lecture, and that is: consciousness is a biological phenomenon, like photosynthesis, digestion, mitosis-you know all the biological phenomena-and once you accept that, most, if not all about the hard problems of consciousness simply evaporate.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
8 months 1 week ago
A speech comes alive only if...

A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips.

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in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
6 months 2 weeks ago
The original Golden Dawn was not...

The original Golden Dawn was not always as serious as it should have been. Mathers was a clown, and Yeats was just a romantic trying to deceive himself. Most of them were interested in personal power, and it ended up by destroying them. The aim of our group is the scientific exploration of the hidden powers of the human mind.

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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
6 months 5 days ago
The alteration of motion is ever...

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

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Laws of Motion, II
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
8 months 3 days ago
With what consistency, or decency they...

With what consistency, or decency they complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery; and annually enslave many thousands more, without any pretence of authority, or claim upon them?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
7 months 3 weeks ago
Don't say: "They must have something...

Don't say: "They must have something in common, or they would not be called 'games'" but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won't see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that.

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To repeat: don't think, but look! § 66
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
8 months ago
A young man who wishes to...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere... God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

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Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann
5 months 1 day ago
If it does not upset, it...

If it does not upset, it is not philosophy.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
5 months 2 weeks ago
Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis...

Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

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Julius Evola
Julius Evola
4 months 1 week ago
All too often people forget that...

All too often people forget that spirituality is essentially a way of life and that its measure does not consist of notions, theories, and ideas that have been stored in one's head. Spirituality is actually what has been successfully actualized and translated into a sense of superiority which is experienced inside by the soul, and a noble demeanor, which is expressed in the body.

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Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest
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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
4 months 1 week ago
At sunset of the third day,...

At sunset of the third day, near the village of Igendja, we moved along an island set in the middle of the wide river. On a sandback to our left, four hippopotamuses and their young plodded along in our same direction. Just then, in my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase "Reverence for Life" struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
8 months ago
"They would say," he answered, "that...

"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."

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Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
8 months 1 week ago
By God's grace, I know Satan...

By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?

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Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, Part 3. Robert E. Smith, tr. Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909), pp. 499-500.
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
4 months 1 week ago
Important though the general concepts and...

Important though the general concepts and propositions may be with which the modern industrious passion for axiomatizing and generalizing has presented us, in algebra perhaps more than anywhere else, nevertheless I am convinced that the special problems in all their complexity constitute the stock and core of mathematics; and to master their difficulties requires on the whole the harder labor.

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The Classical Groups
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
8 months 5 days ago
Even in the games…

Even in the games of children there are things to interest the greatest mathematician.

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1688-1690
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
8 months 2 days ago
From the winter of 1821, when...

From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object. The personal sympathies I wished for were those of fellow labourers in this enterprise. I endeavoured to pick up as many flowers as I could by the way; but as a serious and permanent personal satisfaction to rest upon, my whole reliance was placed on this...

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
4 months 2 days ago
We do not struggle for ourselves,...

We do not struggle for ourselves, nor for our race, not even for humanity. We do not struggle for Earth, nor for ideas. All these are the precious yet provisional stairs of our ascending God, and they crumble away as soon as he steps upon them in his ascent. In the smallest lightning flash of our lives, we feel all of God treading upon us, and suddenly we understand: if we all desire it intensely, if we organize all the visible and invisible powers of earth and fling them upward, if we all battle together like fellow combatants eternally vigilant - then the Universe might possibly be saved. It is not God who will save us - it is we who will save God, by battling, by creating, and by transmuting matter into spirit.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
6 months 1 week ago
Popular presentation today is all too...

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
8 months 2 days ago
All the cruelty and torment of...

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

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Vol. 2, Ch. 14, § 164
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
6 months 3 weeks ago
To understand this for sense it...

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume.

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Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
Indeed, what is there.....
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
8 months 1 week ago
The monuments of wit survive the...

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Essex's Device
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
6 months 2 weeks ago
As of old, the most enlightened,...

As of old, the most enlightened, even, hope for a miracle from the twentieth-century deity, - suffrage. Life, happiness, joy, freedom, independence, - all that, and more, is to spring from suffrage. In her blind devotion woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4 months 3 weeks ago
A noble person attracts noble people,...

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

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Torquato Tasso, Act I, sc. i
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
8 months 5 days ago
Every man is rich or poor...

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with which a man's own labour can supply him. The far greater part of them he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command, or which he can afford to purchase. The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.

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Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
4 months 1 week ago
All men and women have passions,...

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists in bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
4 months 2 days ago
With silent strides Odysseus then shot...

With silent strides Odysseus then shot back the bolt,passed lightly through the courtyard and sped down the street.Some saw him take the graveyard's zigzag mountain path,some saw him leap on rocks that edged the savage shore,some visionaries saw him in the dead of nightswimming and talking secretly with the sea-demons,but only a small boy saw him in a lonely dreamsit crouched and weeping by the dark sea's foaming edge.

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Book II, line 457
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
8 months 1 day ago
Those who believe that they are...

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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"Note on Dogma"
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Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
4 months 2 weeks ago
The only certain fact about Russian...

The only certain fact about Russian affairs under the Soviet regime with regard to which all people agree is: that the standard of living of the Russian masses is much lower than ... the paragon of capitalism, the United States of America. If we were to regard the Soviet regime as an experiment, we would have to say that the experiment has clearly demonstrated the superiority of capitalism and the inferiority of socialism.

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Jesus
Jesus
6 months 3 weeks ago
Do not judge according to appearance,...

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

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(John 7:24) (NASB) Variant translation: Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. (NIV)
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
8 months 4 weeks ago
Blessed are the hearts that can...

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
4 months 2 weeks ago
Two elements must therefore be rooted...

Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all-the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
7 months 3 weeks ago
With a few glorious and glaring...

With a few glorious and glaring exceptions, the shadow of Jim Crow was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity... The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large... To witness a faculty enthusiastically support a candidate for tenure then timidly defer to a rejection based on the Harvard administration's hostility to the Palestinian cause was disgusting... We all know the mendacious reasons given had nothing to do with academic standards... This kind of narcissistic academic professionalism, cowardly deference to the anti-Palestinian prejudices of the Harvard administration, and indifference to my Mother's death constitutes an intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep deaths...

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Quoted in Civil rights activist Cornel West resigns from Harvard, By Jackie Salo, New York Post, July 13, 2021
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
4 months 1 week ago
It was my wish to present...

It was my wish to present this great subject as an illustration of the itermingling of philosophical, mathematical, and physical thought, a study which is dear to my heart. This could be done only by building up the theory systematically from the foundations, and by restricting attention throughout to the principles. But I have not been able to satisfy these self-imposed requirements: the mathematician predominates at the expense of the philosopher.

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From the Author's Preface to First Edition
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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
7 months 1 day ago
The life of the wealthy is...

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
6 months 2 weeks ago
Every intellectual revolution which has ever...

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
8 months 1 week ago
Do not wonder…

Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.

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Exempla Antithetorum, IX. Laus, Existimatio (Pro.)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
8 months 1 week ago
The laws of conscience, which we...

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

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Ch. 22. Of Custom, tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
6 months 3 weeks ago
Everything turns on pain; the rest...

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
6 months 3 weeks ago
To those who hold abstractly to...

To those who hold abstractly to Hegel's political philosophy, Hobhouse replies that the very fact of class society, the patent influence of class interests on the state, renders it impossible to designate the state as expressive of the real will of individuals as a whole. 'Wherever a community is governed by one class or one race, the remaining class or race is permanently in the position of having to take what it can get.'

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
6 months 2 weeks ago
Power is never naked. Rather, it...

Power is never naked. Rather, it is eloquent.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
7 months 3 weeks ago
The Democratic Party is beyond redemption...

The Democratic Party is beyond redemption at this point when it comes to seriously speaking to the needs of poor and working people... The neofascism that's escalating is predicated on the rottenness of a system in which the Democratic Party facilitates that frustration and desperation because it can't present an alternative... If America is unable to present an alternative to the Democratic Party, then we're going fascist.

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