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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 2 weeks ago
As to why some are touched...

As to why some are touched by the law and others not, so that some receive and others scorn the offer of grace...[this is the] hidden will of God, Who, according to His own counsel, ordains such persons as He wills to receive and partake of the mercy preached and offered.

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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
2 months 2 weeks ago
A leftist government doesn't exist because...

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

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from L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche ("Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics"), 1988-1989.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 month 3 weeks ago
The only good that I can...

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

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Review in the Daily News (17 October 1871), quoted in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S (1900) edited by Leonard Huxley, Vol. 1, p. 452
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
6 days ago
Short-lived are both the praiser and...

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

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VIII, 21
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 1 week ago
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering...

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.)

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The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 22 The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 months 6 days ago
A mother-complex is not got rid...

A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience "Mother" into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively added the pre-existent divine pair to the personal parents-the "god"father and "god"-mother of the newborn child-so that, from sheer unconsciousness or shortsighted rationalism, he should never forget himself so far as to invest his own parents with divinity.

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"Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious P.172
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 1 week ago
Only the great generalizations survive. The...

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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From a lecture on Books given in the Fraternity Course in Boston in 1864
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Epictetus
Epictetus
4 months 3 weeks ago
What should a philosopher say, then,...

What should a philosopher say, then, in the face of each of the hardships of life? "It was for this that I've been training myself, it was for this that I was practising."

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Book III, ch. 10,7.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
5 months 6 days ago
The aim of art, the aim...

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
2 months 3 weeks ago
Even the most insensitive hit song...

Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store.

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p. 290
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Epictetus
Epictetus
4 months 3 weeks ago
It is unlikely that the good...

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

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Book I, ch. 20, 17.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 5 days ago
Frazer is much more savage than...

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131
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Friedrich Schelling
Friedrich Schelling
3 months 1 week ago
It is easy to see that...

It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
4 months 3 weeks ago
The living force….

The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.

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Book I, lines 72-74 (tr. H. A. J. Munro); of Epicurus.
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 1 week ago
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods...

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

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Part 2, Section 2
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 1 week ago
Hence money may be dirt, although...

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

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Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2, pg. 123.
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Aristotle
Aristotle
5 months 1 week ago
Men seem to pursue honour in...

Men seem to pursue honour in order that they may believe themselves to be good. Accordingly, they seek to be honoured by the wise, and by those who know them well, and on the score of virtue; it is clear, therefore, that in their opinion at any rate, virtue is superior to honour. Perhaps, then, one ought to say that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life; yet even virtue is plainly too imperfect: for it seems that a man might have all the virtues and yet be asleep, or fail to achieve anything all his life; moreover, such a person may suffer the greatest evils and misfortunes. And no one, in this case, would call a man, who passed his life in this manner, happy, except for argument's sake.

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comfortdragon
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2 weeks 6 days ago
The result of toppling....
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
6 days ago
Love the little trade which thou...

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

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IV, 31
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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 2 days ago
Ask, and it will be given...

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

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Matthew 7:7-8 (NKJV) (Also Luke 11:9-13)
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes
3 months 4 weeks ago
One should attend….

One should attend to one's enemies, for they are the first persons to detect one's errors.

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§ 5
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Cisero
Cisero
4 months 3 weeks ago
O immortal gods!

O immortal gods! Men do not realize how great a revenue parsimony can be!

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Paradoxa Stoicorum; Paradox VI, 49
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
6 days ago
...that to expect a bad person...

...that to expect a bad person not to harm others is like expecting fig trees not to secrete juice, babies not to cry, horses not to neigh-the inevitable not to happen.

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(Hays translation) XII, 16
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Democritus
Democritus
3 months 4 weeks ago
Not from fear but from a...

Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 1 week ago
Even the free importation of foreign...

Even the free importation of foreign corn could very little affect the interest of the farmers of Great Britain. Corn is a much more bulky commodity than butcher's-meat. A pound of wheat at a penny is as dear as a pound of butcher's-meat at fourpence. The small quantity of foreign corn imported even in times of the greatest scarcity, may satisfy our farmers that they can have nothing to fear from the freest importation.

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Chapter II
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 4 weeks ago
From the poetry of Lord Byron...

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month ago
I knew Robert Burns, and I...

I knew Robert Burns, and I knew my father. Yet were you to ask me which had the greater natural faculty, I might perhaps actually pause before replying. Burns had an infinitely wider education, my father a far wholesomer. Besides, the one was a man of musical utterance; the other wholly a man of action, with speech subservient thereto. Never, of all the men I have seen, has one come personally in my way in whom the endowment from nature and the arena from fortune were so utterly out of all proportion. I have said this often, and partly know it. As a man of speculation - had culture ever unfolded him - he must have gone wild and desperate as Burns; hut he was a man of conduct, and work keeps all right. What strange shapable creatures we are!

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
3 months 2 weeks ago
The last thing abandoned by a...

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt. France Before The Consulate, Chapter I: "How the Republic was ready to accept a master", in Memoir, Letters, and Remains, Vol I (1862), p. 266 Variant translation: The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the crowd who dictates the language, and the crowd relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned.

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As quoted in The Viking book of Aphorisms : A Personal Selection (1962) by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306. Variant translation: The last thing that a party abandons is its language.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 1 week ago
It is the nature of all...

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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Jesus
Jesus
3 months 2 days ago
Be of good courage, and if...

Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged, still take courage over against the various forms of nature. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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Chapter 4.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
1 month 3 weeks ago
Is Man so different from any...

Is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?

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Ch.2, p. 86
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 1 week ago
A definition may be very exact,...

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

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Introduction On Taste
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
3 months 5 days ago
Life creates itself in delirium and...

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
4 months 1 week ago
When the rich make war…

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

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Lucretius
Lucretius
4 months 3 weeks ago
Cease therefore to be…

Cease therefore to be dismayed by the mere novelty and so to reject reason from your mind with loathing: weigh the questions rather with keen judgment and if they seem to you to be true, surrender, or if the thing is false, gird yourself to the encounter.

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Book II, lines 1040-1043 (tr. Munro)
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Plutarch
Plutarch
3 months 3 weeks ago
And when the physician said, "Sir,...

And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."

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Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
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Henry George
Henry George
1 week 1 day ago
The tax upon land values is,...

The tax upon land values is, therefore, the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive. It is the taking by the community, for the use of the community, of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by Nature be attained. No citizen will have an advantage over any other citizen save as is given by his industry, skill, and intelligence; and each will obtain what he fairly earns. Then, but not till then, will labor get its full reward, and capital its natural return.

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Book VIII, Ch. 3
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Aristotle
Aristotle
5 months 1 week ago
As for him who neither possesses...

As for him who neither possesses nor can acquire them, let him take to heart the words of Hesiod: He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.

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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
5 days ago
And therefore I think you have...

And therefore I think you have done very wisely to make it your business to consider the Phœnomena relating to the present question, which have been afforded by experiments, especially since it might seem injurious to our senses, by whose mediation we acquire so much of the knowledge we have of things corporal, to have recourse to far-fetched and abstracted Ratiocination, to know what are the sensible ingredients of those sensible things that we daily see and handle, and are supposed to have the liberty to untwist (if I may so speak) into the primitive bodies they consist of.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
4 months 1 week ago
It is the duty of every...

It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

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The Theophilanthropist: Containing Critical, Moral, Theological and Literary Essays, in Monthly Numbers, p. 387
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Ernst Bloch
Ernst Bloch
1 week 1 day ago
Only an atheist can be a...

Only an atheist can be a good Christian.

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Atheismus im Christentum 1968, english translation: Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom 1972
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
2 months 3 weeks ago
There are two atheisms of which...

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

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As quoted in The New Christianity (1967) edited by William Robert Miller
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Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
1 month 3 days ago
I think I….

I think I have already said somewhere that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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Part I. Ch. 2 : The Future of Mathematics, p. 31
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
4 months 1 week ago
A man might say, with enough...

A man might say, with enough truth to justify a joke: "Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know." But it should be added that philosophical speculation as to what we do not yet know has shown itself a valuable preliminary to exact scientific knowledge.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 1 week ago
All the time that this horrid...

All the time that this horrid scene was acting or avenging, as well as for some time before, and ever since, the wicked instigators of this unhappy multitude, guilty, with every aggravation, of all their crimes, and screened in a cowardly darkness from their punishment, continued without interruption, pity, or remorse, to blow up the blind rage of the populace, with a continued blast of pestilential libels, which infected and poisoned the very air we breathed in.

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Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election, referring to the Gordon Riots (6 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), pp. 158-159
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
6 days ago
Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism...

Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity-especially illness.

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(Hays translation) I, 15
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 2 weeks ago
Fame and tranquility can never be...

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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Book I, Ch. 39
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 1 week ago
The history of mankind could... be...

The history of mankind could... be described as a history of outbreaks of fashionable philosophical and religious maladies. These... have... one serious function... evoking criticism.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months 1 week ago
When the man governed by self-interest,...

When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person [as servant], defrauds his master [self- interest] and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of "duty."

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Book IV, Part 1, Section 2, "The Christian religion as a natural religion"
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 5 days ago
To convince someone of the truth,...

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
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