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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 2 weeks ago
This new philosophy, however, was far...

This new philosophy, however, was far from giving the temporal an inherent position and function in the constitution of things. Change was acting on the side of man but only because of fixed laws which governed the changes that take place. There was hope in change just because the laws that govern it do not change.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 4 weeks ago
If there is anything in the...

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

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Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, p. 227
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 weeks ago
The prospect for the human race...

The prospect for the human race is sombre beyond all precedent. Mankind are faced with a clear-cut alternative: either we shall all perish, or we shall have to acquire some slight degree of common sense. A great deal of new political thinking will be necessary if utter disaster is to be averted.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 6 days ago
Let the public good overcome all...

Let the public good overcome all private and selfish regards of every kind and degree; though in truth, even private and selfish regards, and every man's own interest, will be best promoted by the preservation of peace.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 5 days ago
In true education, anything that comes...

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk- they are all part of the curriculum.

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The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, Chapter III, pg. 24 (Translated by Marvin Lowenthal
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 1 week ago
Our habitual experience is a complex...

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

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Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 2 weeks ago
By the ruler's cultivation of his...

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character, the duties of universal obligation are set forth. By honoring men of virtue and talents, he is preserved from errors of judgment.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Try to be free: you will...

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Incredible that the prospect of having...

Incredible that the prospect of having a biographer has made no one renounce having a life.

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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
The Spirit of the Lord is...

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

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Luke 4:18-19 NIV
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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
1 month 2 weeks ago
I am normally said to be...

I am normally said to be free to the degree to which no man or body of men interferes with my activity. Political liberty in this sense is simply the area within which a man can act unobstructed by others. If I am prevented by others from doing what I could otherwise do, I am to that degree unfree; and if this area is contracted by other men beyond a certain minimum, I can be described as being coerced, or, it may be, enslaved. Coercion is not, however, a term that covers every form of inability. If I say that I am unable to jump more than ten feet in the air, or cannot read because I am blind, or cannot understand the darker pages of Hegel, it would be eccentric to say that I am to that degree enslaved or coerced. Coercion implies the deliberate interference of other human beings within the area in which I could otherwise act.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 6 days ago
Economic man deals with the "real...

Economic man deals with the "real world" in all its complexity. Administrative man recognizes that the world he perceives is a drastic simplified model... He makes his choices using a simple picture of the situation that takes into account just a few of the factors that he regards as most relevant and crucial.

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p. xxix; As cited in: Jesper Simonsen (1994) Administrative Behavior: How Organizations can be Understood in Terms of Decision Processes. Roskilde Universitet.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 1 week ago
The eulogies of my intelligence are...

The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question "Is what she says true?"

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Letter to her parents (1943), as quoted in the Introduction by Siân Miles p. 2
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
3 weeks 2 days ago
People trifle with love. Now, I...

People trifle with love. Now, I deny that love is a strong passion. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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The Suicide Club, Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
2 months 4 weeks ago
There are two distinct classes of...

There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 3 weeks ago
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like...

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

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p. 141
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 5 days ago
For my own part, I cannot...

For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defence, and from which we have received no offence at all.

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Ch. 11, tr. Cotton, 1685
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 1 week ago
The Outsider has his proper place...

The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.

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Chapter Three, The Romantic Outsider
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John Dewey
John Dewey
1 month 2 weeks ago
Because energy is not restrained by...

Because energy is not restrained by other elements that are at once antagonistic and cooperative, action proceeds by jerks and spasms. There is discontinuity.

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p. 189
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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 day ago
I thought that I was the...

I thought that I was the only historian, that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man, who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I and the Earl of Strafford.

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My Own Life' (1776), quoted in David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1777), ed. Eugene Miller (1985), p. xxxvii
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 4 weeks ago
If I were to imagine a...

If I were to imagine a girl deeply in love and some man who wanted to use all his reasoning powers and knowledge to ridicule her passion, well, there's surely no question of the enamoured girl having to choose between keeping her wealth and being ridiculed. No, but if some extremely cool and calculating man calmly told the young girl, "I will explain to you what love is," and the girl admitted that everything he told her was quite correct, I wonder if she wouldn't choose his miserable common sense rather than her wealth?

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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 2 weeks ago
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed...

Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron."

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44 Antigonus I
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
3 months 1 week ago
Nature, which alone is good, is...

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 4 weeks ago
May not we then confidently pronounce...

May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined to go on living not for any casual period but throughout a complete lifetime in the same manner, and to die accordingly, because the future is hidden from us, and we conceive happiness as an end, something utterly and absolutely final and complete? If this is so, we shall pronounce those of the living who possess and are destined to go on possessing the good things we have specified to be supremely blessed, though on the human scale of bliss.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
Does man think because he has...

Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?

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§ 467
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
3 months 2 weeks ago
A hymn is the praise of...

A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

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Commentary on the Psalms (c. 1273), Introduction
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 3 days ago
I can cure the gout or...

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

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Section 9
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 2 weeks ago
And, being assembled together with them,...

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

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1:4-5 (KJV)
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
For the mockers are those who...

For the mockers are those who die comically, and God laughs at their comic ending, while the nobler part, the part of tragedy, is theirs who endured the mockery.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 4 weeks ago
Again, defenders of utility often find...

Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this-that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments. The answer to the objection is, that there has been ample time, namely, the whole past duration of the human species. During all that time mankind have been learning by experience the tendencies of actions.

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Ch. 2
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 4 weeks ago
Poetry is the universal art of...

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

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As quoted in the Introduction to Aesthetics (1842), translated by T. M. Knox, (1979), p. 89
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Aristotle
Aristotle
3 months 4 weeks ago
The majority of mankind and people...

The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they approve a life of sensual enjoyment.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
3 weeks 6 days ago
I know that my unity with...

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

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My Religion (1884)
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Empedocles
Empedocles
2 months 2 weeks ago
For already, sometime, I have….

For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.

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fr. 117
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 4 weeks ago
Where is the prince…

Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?

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Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767
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Protagoras
Protagoras
2 months 1 week ago
When it comes to consideration of...

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

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As quoted in Protagoras by Plato
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nature magically suits the man to...

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

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Fate
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is now generally accepted that...

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about these responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.

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Preface To The 2011 edition, p. xi
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 1 day ago
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting...

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the distance from the center.

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Letter to Edmund Halley (June 20, 1686) quoted in I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith, ed.s, The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2002) p. 204
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
If one thing goes without saying,...

If one thing goes without saying, almost anything can.

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Democritus
Democritus
2 months 2 weeks ago
Good breeding in cattle depends on...

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

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Freeman (1948), p. 151
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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
1 month 1 week ago
Life is agid. Life is fulgid....

Life is agid. Life is fulgid. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

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Quine's response in 1988 when asked his philosophy of life. (He invented the word "agid".) It makes up the entire Chapter 54 in Quine in Dialogue (2008).
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
1 week 4 days ago
As Gandhi taught, freedom can be...

As Gandhi taught, freedom can be reclaimed only by refusing to cooperate with unjust, immoral laws. The fight for truth-employing the principles of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and noncooperation-is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

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(p184)
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 3 days ago
Be substantially great in thyself, and...

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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Part I, Section XIX
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 month 2 weeks ago
We return to our analysis of...

We return to our analysis of qualities. Something preserves itself throughout this flux, something that passes into other things, but also stands against them as a being for itself. This something can exist only as the product of a process through which it integrates its otherness with its own proper being. Hegel says that its existence comes about through 'the negation of the negation.' The first negation is the otherness in which it turns, and the second is the incorporation of this other into its own self. Such a process presupposes that things possess a certain power over their movement, that they exist in a certain self-relation that enables them to 'mediate' their existential conditions.

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P. 132-133
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
1 month 1 week ago
It is difficult to fit the...

It is difficult to fit the work of Nikolai Berdyaev into any neat category. The label that was used most frequently to characterize him was that of an "existential Christian philosopher" but ... his voice is equally relevant to psychology and psychoanalysis and it also constitutes a uniquely original commentary on the very nature of the person in our postmodern world especially in relation to spirituality.

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Renos K. Papadopoulos, in C.G. Jung and Nikolai Berdyaev: Individuation and the Person (2011) by Georg Nicolaus, Foreword, p. xiii
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
We want no foreign examples to...

We want no foreign examples to rekindle in us the flame of liberty. The example of our own ancestors is abundantly sufficient to maintain the spirit of freedom in its full vigour, and to qualify it in all its exertions. The example of a wise, moral, well-natured, and well-tempered spirit of freedom, is that alone which can be useful to us, or in the least degree reputable or safe. Our fabric is so constituted; one part of it bears so much on the other, the parts, are so made for one another, and for nothing else, that to introduce any foreign matter into it, is to destroy it.

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p. 471
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 3 weeks ago
It is important to remember that...

It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
3 months 5 days ago
The mariner of old said to...

The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."

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Book II, Ch. 16. Of Glory
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
Man is always...
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