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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months ago
The camera is as subjective as...

The camera is as subjective as we are.

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An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics, 1927
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 1 week ago
To err is human also in...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
3 weeks 5 days ago
All of the new media have...

All of the new media have enriched our perceptions of language and older media. They are to the man-made environment what species are to biology.

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(p. 84)
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 3 days 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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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 6 days ago
Mother love is stronger than the...

Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 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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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 4 weeks ago
Of the evils most liable to...

Of the evils most liable to attend on any sort of early proficiency, and which often fatally blights its promise, my father most anxiously guarded against. This was self-conceit. He kept me, with extreme vigilance, out of the way of hearing myself praised, or of being led to make self-flattering comparisons between myself and others. From his own intercourse with me I could derive none but a very humble opinion of myself; and the standard of comparison he always held up to me, was not what other people did, but what a man could and ought to do. He completely succeeded in preserving me from the sort of influences he so much dreaded. I was not at all aware that my attainments were anything unusual at my age.

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(pp. 32-33)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
Reading the Socratic dialogues one has...

Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 months 1 week ago
It's not the experience....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 weeks ago
And striving to be man, the...

And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

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May-Day
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 4 weeks ago
Experience teaches only the teachable... Tragedy...

Experience teaches only the teachable...

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Tragedy and the Whole Truth
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months ago
I don't care for the applause...

I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

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Letter to Lucy Martin Donnelly, February 10, 1916
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
2 months 1 week ago
Sobriety is the strength of the...

Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.

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As quoted in The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century (1819) by William Enfield Sobriety is the strength of the mind
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
An anxious man constructs his terrors,...

An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 3 weeks ago
Big industry, and the limitless expansion...

Big industry, and the limitless expansion of production which it makes possible, bring within the range of feasibility a social order in which so much is produced that every member of society will be in a position to exercise and develop all his powers and faculties in complete freedom. It thus appears that the very qualities of big industry which, in our present-day society, produce misery and crises are those which, in a different form of society, will abolish this misery and these catastrophic depressions.We see with the greatest clarity: (i) That all these evils are from now on to be ascribed solely to a social order which no longer corresponds to the requirements of the real situation; and (ii) That it is possible, through a new social order, to do away with these evils altogether.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1 month 4 weeks ago
The true Christian knows no Covenant...

The true Christian knows no Covenant or Mediation with God, but only the Old, Eternal, and Unchangeable Relation, that in Him we live, and move, and have our being; and he asks not who has said this, but only what has been said;-even the book wherein this may be written is nothing to him as a proof, but only as a means of culture; he bears the proof in his own breast. This is my view of the matter...

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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
1 month 3 weeks ago
Here we must make one of...

Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive sciences. We must extend the law of insistency into the future. Plainly, the insistency of a future idea with reference to the present is a quantity affected by the minus sign; for it is the present that affects the future, if there be any effect, not the future that affects the present.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 month 1 week ago
Ideas too are a life and...

Ideas too are a life and a world.

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Epicurus
Epicurus
3 months 2 weeks ago
A happy and eternal being has...

A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 6 days ago
Adam was created righteous, acceptable, and...

Adam was created righteous, acceptable, and without sin. He had no need from his labor in the garden to be made righteous and acceptable to God. Rather, the Lord gave Adam work in order to cultivate and protect the garden. This would have been the freest of all works because they were done simply to please God and not to obtain righteousness. ... The works of the person who trusts God are to be understood in a similar manner. Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 3 days ago
Genius is present in every age,...

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
Jacobinism is the revolt of the...

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Neither is the longing for immortality...

Neither is the longing for immortality saved, but rather dissolved and submerged, by agnosticism, or the doctrine of the unknowable. ...The unknowable, if it is something more than the merely hitherto unknown, is but a purely negative concept, a concept of limitation. And upon this foundation no human feeling can be built up.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 2 days ago
Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone...

Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 months 3 weeks ago
We must plow through the whole...

We must plow through the whole of language.

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Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
Whenever a separation is made between...

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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Letter to M. de Menonville
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 weeks ago
To different minds, the same world...

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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December 20, 1822
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
Obviously God was a solution, and...

Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.

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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
1 month 2 weeks ago
I daresay anything can be made...

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

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The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 322.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 2 weeks ago
Not only are we unable to...

Not only are we unable to conceive of the full and living God as masculine simply, but we are unable to conceive of Him as individual simply, as the projection of a solitary I, an unsocial I, an I that is in reality an abstract I. My living I is an I that is really a We; my living personal I lives only in other, of other, and by other I's; I am sprung from a multitude of ancestors. I carry them within me in extract, and at the same time I carry within me, potentially, a multitude of descendants, and God, the projection of my I to the infinite - or rather I, the projection of God to the finite - must also be a multitude. Hence, in order to save the personality of God - that is to say, in order to save the living God - faith's need - the need of the feeling and the imagination - of conceiving Him and feeling Him as possessed of a certain internal multiplicity.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 3 weeks ago
A utopia of judicial reticence: take...

A utopia of judicial reticence: take away life, but prevent the patient from feeling it; deprive the prisoner of all rights, but do not inflict pain; impose penalties free of all pain. Recourse to psycho-pharmacology and to various physiological 'disconnectors', even if it is temporary, is a logical consequence of this 'non-corporal' penalty.

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Chapter One, The Spectacle of the Scaffold
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus
3 months 2 weeks ago
War is the father and king...

War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.

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chanakya
chanakya
1 week 1 day ago
If a king is energetic, his...

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.

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Book I : "Concerning Discipline" Chapter 19 "The Duties of a King"
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
Are ye come out as against...

Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.

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26:55-56 (KJV)
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 6 days ago
Do not fight against these harmful...

Do not fight against these harmful spells. For you do not know what God wants with them. You do not know the greater divine plan behind it all.

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As attributed by Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches"). (2013) in "Interview with Dr. Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches")"
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
3 months 2 days ago
This disposition to admire, and almost...

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

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Section III, Chap. III.
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
2 months 3 weeks ago
By virtue of its innermost intention,...

By virtue of its innermost intention, and like all questions about language, structuralism escapes the classical history of ideas which already supposes structuralism's possibility, for the latter naively belongs to the province of language and propounds itself within it.Nevertheless, by virtue of an irreducible region of irreflection and spontaneity within it, by virtue of the essential shadow of the undeclared, the structuralist phenomenon will deserve examination by the historian of ideas. For better or for worse. Everything within this phenomenon that does not in itself transparently belong to the question of the sign will merit this scrutiny; as will everything within it that is methodologically effective, thereby possessing the kind of infallibil-ity now ascribed to sleepwalkers and formerly attributed to instinct, which was said to be as certain as it was blind.

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Force and Signification
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 2 weeks ago
If the Superior Man is...

If the Superior Man is not serious, then he will not inspire awe in others. If he is not learned, then he will not be on firm ground. He takes loyalty and good faith to be of primary importance, and has no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. When he makes a mistake, he doesn't hesitate to correct it.

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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
3 weeks 1 day ago
The idea that the citizen owes...

The idea that the citizen owes loyalty to a country, a territory, a jurisdiction and all those who reside within it - the root assumption of democratic politics, and one that depends upon the nation as its moral foundation - that idea has no place in the minds and hearts of many who now call themselves citizens of European states.

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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 1 week ago
I had never doubted my own...

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 3 weeks ago
"At the edge of life you...

At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm.

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essay 2 - On not wanting to live
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks ago
If this superstitious fear of Spirits...

If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.

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The First Part, Chapter 2, p. 8
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 weeks ago
Money often costs too much. Wealth

Money often costs too much.

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Wealth
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 2 weeks ago
The superior man governs men, according...

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months ago
To fear love is to fear...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 week ago
Let great authors have their due,...

Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.

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Book I, iv, 10
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 2 days ago
Every body continues in its state...

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

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Laws of Motion, I
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 2 days ago
The other part of the true...

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

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Of Humanity
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 2 days ago
I have in this treatise followed...

I have in this treatise followed the mathematical method, if not with all strictness, at least imitatively, not in order, by a display of profundity, to procure a better reception for it, but because I believe such a system to be quite capable of it, and that perfection may in time be obtained by a cleverer hand, if stimulated by this sketch, mathematical investigators of nature should find it not unimportant to treat the metaphysical portion, which anyway cannot be got rid of, as a special fundamental department of general physics, and to bring it into unison with the mathematical doctrine of motion.

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Preface, Tr. Bax, 1883
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 weeks ago
The people never give up their...

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire
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