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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 2 weeks ago
The more one presupposes that his...

The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

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Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 15
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
4 months 1 week ago
In every rebellion is to be...

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
We are so lonely in life...

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 2 weeks ago
Announced by all the trumpets of...

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.

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The Snow-Storm
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 1 week ago
It has become almost a cliché...

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
3 months 1 week ago
I would in fact tend to...

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

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Habermas (1993) "Further reflections on the public sphere", in: Craig Calhoun Eds. Habermas and the Public Sphere. MIT Press. p. 441
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
5 days ago
Work is the grand cure for...

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,-honest work, which you intend getting done.

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Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (April 2, 1866), reported in A dictionary of quotations in prose, edited by A. L. Ward (1889).
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 1 week ago
All these present struggles revolve around...

All these present struggles revolve around the question: Who are we? They are a refusal of these abstractions, of economic and ideological state violence, which ignore who we are individually, and also a refusal of a scientific or administrative inquisition which determines who one is.

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p. 781
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Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann
1 week 6 days ago
There is thus a certain plausibility...

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

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p. 151
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 2 weeks ago
Foreknowledge is power....

Foreknowledge is power.

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As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
Music is an ocean, but the...

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

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Interview, Time magazine, December 1957
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 2 weeks ago
Happiest are the people who give...

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

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As quoted in Happyology by Harald W. Tietze, p. 28
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 1 week ago
It is justice, not charity, that...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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Ch. 4
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 3 weeks ago
If there be light, then there...

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

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As quoted in Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review by ? Vol. IV, No. 8 (1847) by Dallas Theological Seminary, p. 107
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
There is nothing so eternally adhesive...

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
1 week 2 days 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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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 2 weeks ago
Consider the Koran... this wretched book...

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

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E. Payne, trans., Vol. II, Ch. XVII: On Man's Need for Metaphysics
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William James
William James
3 months 2 weeks ago
Setting the mind to remember... involves...

Setting the mind to remember... involves a continual minimal irradiation of excitement into paths which lead thereto... the continued presence of the thing in the 'fringe' of our consciousness. Letting the thing go involves withdrawal of the irradiation, unconsciousness of the thing, and... obliteration of the paths.

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Ch. 16
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 5 days ago
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
7 months 2 weeks ago
I hate writing

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing — I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn’t really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project — it’s an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 3 weeks ago
Yet it must be acknowledged that...

Yet it must be acknowledged that there is a fundamental difference between the sexual impulse in men and women. Her need is for a lover, a protector, a father for her children. His desire is for mastery, conquest, to be allowed to use her body for his own satisfaction. He feels like a bee, burying itself in a flower, apparently doing nothing for the flower but taking its sweetness. If he loves her, then his desire is mixed with a kind of pity.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 2 weeks ago
In art the Chinese aim at...

In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.

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The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XI: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 1 week ago
Yet it seems extraordinary that the...

Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.

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Chapter III, Section 26, pg. 157
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John Gray
John Gray
3 weeks ago
Evangelical atheists preach the need for...

Evangelical atheists preach the need for a scientific view of things, but a settled view does not go with scientific method. If we know anything it is that most of the theories that prevail at any one time are false. Scientific theories are not components of a world-view but tools we use to tinker with the world.

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Sweet Morality (p. 224)
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
1 month 3 weeks ago
We're tired of trees…

We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics. Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial root, adventitious growths and rhizomes.

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from A Thousand Plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia, p. 15
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Democritus
Democritus
3 months 4 days ago
Now as of old the gods...

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
2 months 6 days ago
Reverie is not a mind vacuum....

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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Ch. 2, sect. 3
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 month 1 week ago
Give us grace and strength to...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 2 weeks ago
Frugality is founded on the principle...

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 4 weeks ago
When the apostle James was talking...

When the apostle James was talking about faith and works against those who thought their faith was enough, and didn't want to have good works, he said, You believe God is one; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble.

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(Jas 2:19) 183:13:2
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
Those attacks upon language and religion...

Those attacks upon language and religion in Poland, the Baltic provinces, Alsace, Bohemia, upon the Jews in Russia, in every place that such acts of violence occur-in what name have they been, and are they, perpetrated? In none other than the name of that patriotism which you defend. Ask our savage Russifiers of Poland and the Baltic provinces, ask the persecutors of the Jews, why they act thus. They will tell you it is in defence of their native religion and language; they will tell you that if they do not act thus, their religion and language will suffer-the Russians will be Polonised, Teutonised, Judaised.

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A Reply to Criticisms
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
The criterion of efficiency dictates that...

The criterion of efficiency dictates that choice of alternatives which produces the largest result for the given application of resources.

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Simon (1945, p. 179); As cited in: Harry M. Johnson (1966) Sociology: A Systematic Introduction. p. 287.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
3 months 1 week ago
Kant's philosophy shifts for the first...

Kant's philosophy shifts for the first time the whole of modern thought and being (Desein) into the clarity and transparency of the foundation (Begrundung). This determines every attitude toward knowledge since then, as well as the bounds (Abgrenzungen) and appraisals of the sciences in the nineteenth century up to the present time. Therein Kant towers so far above all who precede and follow that even those who reject him or go beyond him still remain entirely dependent upon him.

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p. 55-56
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
2 months 5 days ago
The role of philosophy might be...

The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

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Ch. 9, p. 137
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
2 months 2 weeks ago
Truth is the cry of all,...

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 2 weeks ago
Man's greatest concern is to know...

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

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Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 53
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months 2 weeks ago
The French want no-one to be...

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

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Journeys to England and Ireland (1835).
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 1 day ago
Glorious is the risk! - καλος...

Glorious is the risk! - καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying ... Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die - no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live - this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.

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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 1 week ago
To explain the origin of the...

To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

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Chapter 6 "Origins and Miracles" (p. 141)
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
The strangest, most generous, and proudest...

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 2 weeks ago
Reason has always existed, but not...

Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form.

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Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge, September 1843
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
3 months 1 week ago
The most defenseless tenderness and the...

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

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Vol. I, p. 59
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 2 weeks ago
A habit of basing convictions upon...

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit, and men who refuse to profess belief in some system of unfounded dogmas are not considered suitable as teachers of the young.

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preface xxiii-xxiv
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 months 1 week ago
So long as man is protected...

So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.

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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
3 weeks 6 days ago
I have repeatedly stressed that the...

I have repeatedly stressed that the rape of the Earth and rape of women are intimately linked - both metaphorically, in shaping world-views, and materially, in shaping women's everyday lives. The deepening economic vulnerability of women makes them more vulnerable to all forms of violence, including sexual assault, as we found out during a series of public hearings on the impact of economic reforms on women organized by the National Commission on Women and the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.

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Ecofeminism, by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, 1993, (full text pdf)
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 months 2 weeks ago
History is mere Empiricism; it has...

History is mere Empiricism; it has only facts to communicate, and all its proofs are founded upon facts alone. To attempt to rise to Primeval History on this foundation of fact, or to argue by this means how such or such a thing might have been, and then to take for granted that it has been so in reality,is to stray beyond the limits of History, and produce an a priori History; just as the Philosophy of Nature, referred to in our preceding lecture, endeavoured to find an a priori Science of Physics.

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p. 140
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 6 days ago
All liberation depends on the consciousness...

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
Plato says, "'Tis to no purpose...

Plato says, "'Tis to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses;" and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly."

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Book II, Ch. 2. Of Drunkenness
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Democritus
Democritus
3 months 4 days ago
In the weightiest matters we must...

In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 3 weeks ago
I speak truth, not so much...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.

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Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
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