"To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature."
- Voltaire

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Just accept it....universality is unquestionable....

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Here's the thing, if you're arguing against fundamental human rights...I don't care if the argument is good enough for you. In fact, certain hand gestures are relevant, and we'll work back from that.....

"Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected."
- Porphyry

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I've noticed this more than anything. It's not so much that we tell people how to be. It's more that we teach them what to avoid, as well as simple respect for the space of others. Do what you want, but definitely not that....

Yeah...being gifted as well as persistent.... I think just persistence alone deserves recognition.....not having good luck as a privilege but still keeping at it.....

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The same goes for Sartre's waiter...the same goes for Christians, Muslims....it's what you are like, not what you are...

Sometimes they do things wrong repeatedly and initiate the apology at their convenience....or not....sometimes just silence....

"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside."
- Epictetus

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But also, don't obsess. Read casually, be prepared for the long path...

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
- Confucius

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So much of Ancient Greek philosophy is like this. The form of the idea is a work of art from thousands of years ago. We can appreciate it from that perspective.

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"There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace."
- Publilius Syrus

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"He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts."
- Marcus Aurelius

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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
- Seneca the Younger

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"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature."
- Karl Marx

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"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas Henry Huxley

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"We are by no means opposed to the globalization of relationships as such-in fact, as we said, the strongest forces of Leftist internationalism have effectively led this process. The enemy, rather, is a specific regime of global relations that we call Empire."
- Antonio Negri

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"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
- Xunzi

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"In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety."
- Karl Marx

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I'm glad this isn't true for all of us or we might not know when to protest unjust laws.

"When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism. Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives."
- Henry David Thoreau

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"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."
- Joseph Priestley

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"Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life."
- Marcus Aurelius

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"Time and Space ... It is not nature which imposes them upon us, it is we who impose them upon nature because we find them convenient."
- Henri Poincaré

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I love me some Zizek...

"Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innocent."
- Emil Cioran

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"If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do.""
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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This will make more sense post-scarcity....

"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
- Aristotle

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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything."
- Emil Cioran

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"For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome."
- Thomas Hobbes

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"Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe."
- Thomas Aquinas

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