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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 4 weeks ago
Thus, while the refugee serfs only...

Thus, while the refugee serfs only wished to be free to develop and assert those conditions of existence which were already there, and hence, in the end, only arrived at free labour, the proletarians, if they are to assert themselves as individuals, will have to abolish the very condition of their existence hitherto (which has, moreover, been that of all society up to the present), namely, labour. Thus they find themselves directly opposed to the form in which, hitherto, the individuals, of which society consists, have given themselves collective expression, that is, the State. In order, therefore, to assert themselves as individuals, they must overthrow the State.

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"Communism. The Production of the Form of Intercourse Itself", The Marx-Engels Reader
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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
3 weeks 3 days ago
There is nothing disastrous in the...

There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.

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Ch. VII: "The Making of Creeds", p. 236
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
2 months 1 day ago
1. Fidelity & Allegiance sworn to...

1. Fidelity & Allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves, and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those Oaths. 2. When, therefore, the obligation by the law to fidelity and allegiance ceases, that by the Oath also ceases...

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Letter to Dr. Covel Feb. 21, (1688-9) Thirteen Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to J. Covel, D.D.
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 months 1 day ago
Let the punishments...
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Friedrich Schelling
Friedrich Schelling
2 months 4 weeks ago
On its pass through finitude, the...

On its pass through finitude, the being-for-itself of the counter-image expresses itself most potently as ""I-ness", as self-identical individuality. Just as a planet in its orbit no sooner reaches its farthest distance from the center than it returns to its closest proximity, so the point of the farthest distance from God, the I-ness, is also the moment of its return to the Absolute, of the re-absorption into the ideal.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks 5 days ago
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen...

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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Bk. III, ch. 3.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
4 months 5 days ago
...God commanded in the law ....

...God commanded in the law [Deut. 22:22-24] that adulterers be stoned . . . The temporal sword and government should therefore still put adulterers to death . . . Where the government is negligent and lax, however, and fails to inflict the death penalty, the adulterer may betake himself to a far country and there remarry if he is unable to remain continent. But it would be better to put him to death, lest a bad example be set . . .

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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
4 months 1 day ago
All the better; they do not...

All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.

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Statement after his excommunication from Jewish society, attributed by Lucas, in The Oldest Biography of Spinoza (1970) by A. Wolf; also in Spinoza: A Life (1999) by Steven Nadler
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Horace
Horace
3 months 2 weeks ago
If the world should break….

If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.

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Book III, ode iii, line 7
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
3 months 2 weeks ago
The only justifiable stopping place for...

The only justifiable stopping place for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are included within the circle of altruism. This means that all beings with the capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 120
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
2 months 2 weeks ago
To believe in God is to...

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
3 months 4 days ago
The universal Intellect is the intimate,...

The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is the single whole which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the production of natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of natural kinds.

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Polybius
Polybius
2 weeks 6 days ago
The only method of learning to...

The only method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of fortune is to recall the catastrophes of others.

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Polybius. The Histories of Polybius, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. London, New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Book I, Chapter 1
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is no single speech nor...

There is no single speech nor article in which it is not said that the purpose of all these orgies is the peace of Europe. At a dinner given by the representatives of French literature, all breathe of peace. M. Zola, who, a short time previously, had written that war was inevitable, and even serviceable; M. de Vogue, who more than once has stated the same in print, say, neither of them, a word as to war, but speak only of peace. The sessions of Parliament open with speeches upon the past festivities; the speakers mention that such festivities are an assurance of peace to Europe. It is as if a man should come into a peaceful company, and commence energetically to assure everyone present that he has not the least intention to knock out anyone's teeth, blacken their eyes, or break their arms, but has only the most peaceful ideas for passing the evening.

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Ch. 1
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William Godwin
William Godwin
2 months 3 weeks ago
No man must encroach upon my...

No man must encroach upon my province nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without perniciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. He may exercise a republican boldness in judging, but he must not be peremptory and imperious in prescribing. Force may never be resorted to but, in the most extraordinary and imperious emergency.

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Book II, "Of Rights"
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1 month 2 weeks ago
Time, and reflection, and discussion, have...

Time, and reflection, and discussion, have produced their natural effect on minds eminently intelligent and candid. No intermediate shades of opinion are now left. There is no twilight. The light has been divided from the darkness. Two parties are ranged in battle array against each other. There is the standard of monopoly. Here is the standard of free trade; and by the standard of free trade I pledge myself to stand firmly.

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Speech in Edinburgh (2 December 1845), quoted in Speeches of the Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. (1854), p. 423
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
2 months ago
It is the fantasy of seizing...

It is the fantasy of seizing reality live that continues-ever since Narcissus bent over his spring. Surprising the real in order to immobilize it, suspending the real in the expiration of its double. You bend over the hologram like God over his creature: only God has this power of passing through walls, through people, and finding Himself immaterially in the beyond. We dream of passing through ourselves and of finding ourselves in the beyond: the day when your holographic double will be there in space, eventually moving and talking, you will have realized this miracle. Of course, it will no longer be a dream, so its charm will be lost.

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"Holograms," p. 105
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bell hooks
bell hooks
2 months 1 week ago
When contemporary feminist movement first began,...

When contemporary feminist movement first began, feminist writings and scholarship by black women was groundbreaking. The writings of black women like Cellestine Ware, Toni Cade Bambara, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith, and Angela Davis, to name a few, were all works that sought to articulate, define, speak to and against the glaring omissions in feminist work, the erasure of black female presence.

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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 weeks ago
In the part of this universe...

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

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"The Argument for the Remedying of Injustice"
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 months 2 weeks ago
Thus to the Lord doth Asha,...

Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply:"No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans."

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Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 3.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 4 weeks ago
The first intellectual operation in which...

The first intellectual operation in which I arrived at any proficiency, was dissecting a bad argument, and finding in what part the fallacy lay: and though whatever capacity of this sort I attained was due to the fact that it was an intellectual exercise in which I was most perseveringly drilled by my father, yet it is also true that the school logic, and the mental habits acquired in studying it, were among the principal instruments of this drilling. I am persuaded that nothing, in modern education, tends so much, when properly used, to form exact thinkers, who attach a precise meaning to words and propositions, and are not imposed on by vague, loose, or ambiguous terms. The boasted influence of mathematical studies is nothing to it; for in mathematical processes, none of the real difficulties of correct ratiocination occur.

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(p. 19)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 4 weeks ago
Keep cool: it will be all...

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

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Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
4 months 5 days ago
There must then be something that...

There must then be something that is better, and that must be God. When you see a stately and stupendous edifice, though you do not know who is the owner of it, you would yet conclude it was not built for rats. And this divine structure, that we behold of the celestial palace, have we not reason to believe that it is the residence of some possessor, who is much greater than we?

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Ch. 12, tr. Cotton, rev. W. Carew Hazlitt, 1877
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 2 weeks ago
Are not five sparrows sold for...

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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12:6-7
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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 1 day ago
Love in animals, has not for...

Love in animals, has not for its only object animals of the same species, but extends itself farther, and comprehends almost every sensible and thinking being. A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection.

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Part 2, Section 12
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
2 months 1 week ago
A man really writes for an...

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

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p. 66
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 2 weeks ago
Keep on, then, seeking first the...

Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you. So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles.

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Matthew 6:33-34, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
4 months 1 day ago
All for ourselves, and nothing for...

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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Chapter IV, p. 448.
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Max Scheler
Max Scheler
2 months 2 weeks ago
Antiquity believed that the forces of...

Antiquity believed that the forces of love in the universe were limited. Therefore they were to be used sparingly,and everyone was to be loved only according to his value.

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L. Coser, trans. (1961), p. 94
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 months 1 week ago
There is no such thing as...

There is no such thing as data-driven thinking.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 4 weeks ago
Is it really not possible to...

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 1 week ago
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase...

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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D 25
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John Dewey
John Dewey
2 months 2 weeks ago
In all ranges of experience, externality...

In all ranges of experience, externality of means defines the mechanical.

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p. 206
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Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali
3 months 4 days ago
We attest that He is the...

We attest that He is the Willer of all things that are, the ruler of all originated phenomena; there does not come into the visible or invisible world anything meager or plenteous, small or great, good or evil, or any advantage or disadvantage, belief or unbelief, knowledge or ignorance, success or failure, increase or decrease, obedience or disobedience, except by His will. What He wills is, and what He does not, will not; there is not a glance of the eye, nor a stray thought of the heart that is not subject to His will. He is the Creator, the Restorer, the Doer of whatsoever He wills. There is none that rescinds His command, none that supplements His decrees, none that dissuades a servant from disobeying Him, except by His help and mercy, and none has power to obey Him except by His will.

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Ihyaa 'Ulum al-Deen. Beirut: Dar Ibn Hazm (2005), p. 107.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
5 months ago
Life is, after all, not a...
Life is, after all, not a product of morality.
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John Rawls
John Rawls
3 months 3 weeks ago
Properly understood, then, the desire to...

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

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Chapter IV, Section 40, p. 256
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Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
1 week 6 days ago
The goal of liberalism is the...

The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn. Nobody can derive any profit from conquest, but many can suffer losses from fighting. War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression. The population of every territory is free to determine to which state it wishes to belong, or whether it prefers to establish a state of its own. All nations can coexist peacefully, because no nation is concerned about the size of its state.

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Omnipotent Government : The Rise of the Total State and Total War
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 week 5 days ago
What is more affectionate to others...

What is more affectionate to others than man? Yet what is more savage against them than anger?

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2 months 1 week ago
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
2 weeks 5 days ago
But leaving this, let us remark...

But leaving this, let us remark one thing which is very plain: That whatever be the uses and duties, real or supposed, of a Secretary in Parliament, his faculty to accomplish these is a point entirely unconnected with his ability to get elected into Parliament, and has no relation or proportion to it, and no concern with it whatever.

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Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski
2 weeks 6 days ago
Karl Marx was born at Trier...

Karl Marx was born at Trier on 5 May 1818, the child of Jewish parents with a long rabbinical tradition on both sides. His grandfathers were rabbis; his father, a well-to-do lawyer, changed his first name from Herschel to Heinrich and adopted Protestantism, which in Prussia was a necessary condition of professional and cultural emancipation.

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(pg. 96)
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 4 weeks ago
The art of music is good,...

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

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Ch. 1
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 months 3 weeks ago
But no mental action seems necessary...

But no mental action seems necessary or invariable in its character. In whatever manner the mind has reacted under a given sensation, in that manner it is the more likely to react again; were this, however, an absolute necessity, habits would become wooden and ineradicable, and no room being left for the formulation of new habits, intellectual life would come to a speedy close. Thus, the uncertainty of the mental law is no mere defect of it, but is on the contrary of its essence. The truth is, the mind is not subject to "law," in the same rigid sense that matter is. It only experiences gentle forces which merely render it more likely to act a given way than it otherwise would be. There always remains a certain amount of arbitrary spontaneity in its action, without which it would be dead.

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Chrysippus
Chrysippus
3 months 2 weeks ago
If I knew that it was...

If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even wish for it; for the foot also, if it had intelligence, would volunteer to get muddy.

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As quoted by Epictetus, Discourses, ii. 6. 10.
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Zoroaster
Zoroaster
3 months 2 weeks ago
Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul...

Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried: "For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me? Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me; None have I to protect me save Thee; Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life."

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Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 1.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
4 months ago
The right of voting for representatives...

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is the preservation of the...

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

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Letter 22
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 4 weeks ago
Those only are happy

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

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(p. 142)
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Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan
3 weeks 2 days ago
Never has any one been less...

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
4 months ago
The concept of space, therefore, is...

The concept of space, therefore, is a pure intuition, being a singular concept, not made up by sensations, but itself the fundamental form of all external sensation.

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