“Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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“Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“I may live for thirty years, or perhaps forty, or maybe just one day: therefore I have resolved to use this day ... in such a way that if not one day in my whole past life has been used well, this one by the help of God will be.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
“It can be said of the most perfect consciousness that it is conscious of all and nothing.”
— Novalis, Teplitz Fragments
“But the distinction between what is real and what is virtual is not always clear or obvious. Our deep concern for real success is often actually a concern for virtual success, in terms of artificial markers like status, wealth, or fame.”
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“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once.”
— Thomas Paine, First Principles of Government
“Those who devote too much attention to little things generally become incapable of great ones.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
“What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin — to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous.”
— Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion
“A 'post-truth democracy' ... would no longer be a democracy.”
— Jürgen Habermas, Between Naturalism and Religion
“Sometimes I'll discover that I've misled myself. I've allowed my actions to be less compassionate than they otherwise could have been. There is no point in dwelling in shame or guilt over this, but I still need to take responsibility.”
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“I shall not grow resigned. With all my silence, I shall protest to the very end. There is no reason to say: “It had to be.” It is my revolt which is right, and I must follow this joy which is like a pilgrim on earth, follow it step by step.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Like Plotinus’ concept of concentric rings of emanation, we encounter our Others in gradually increasing intensity and clarity; they become clearer to us continually.
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
“You wonder if this is all there really is to life. If it always ends with this feeling of nothingness. If the void ultimately consumes us all. You're wildly successful by every available metric and still you feel no joy.”
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If they were struck down, their children upon growing up and examining their work would never know why they had done it, would never know who it was that did it. They work that way and sometimes live that way, too.”
— Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations
“It is a puzzle how so many people, including intellectuals and academics, devote enormous energy to work in which nothing of themselves or their important goals shines forth, not even in the way their work is presented.
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“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
— Voltaire, Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
“There's that pesky “should” again. Who is responsible for it? Again, it has to be him. He has imposed these standards on himself — standards about using time efficiently, about getting things done, about making progress.”
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“The impossibility of portraying Fascism springs from the fact that in it, as in its contemplation, subjective freedom no longer exists. Total unfreedom can be recognized, but not represented.”
— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
— Euripides, Medea
“When all is said, what remains to be said is the disaster. Ruin of words, demise writing, faintness faintly murmuring: what remains without remains (the fragmentary).”
— Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
From Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections…”
— Immanuel Kant
“Joy ignores my intentions just as it ignores any effort to keep it. I cannot choose joy any more than I can refuse it. Joy arrives on its own and when it arrives I must experience it.”
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“There are beliefs — such, for example, as the belief that physical objects exactly resemble our sense-data — which are entertained until we begin to reflect, but are found to melt away when subjected to a close inquiry.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
“Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint Genet
“And that seemed like hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archeology. Hell, because the world held no more human meaning for me, and man no longer had human meaning for me.
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“Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory. The world stands by balanced antagonisms. The more the peculiarities are pressed the better the result.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural History of Intellect
“You feel happy when you look back on all you've accomplished to get here. But when you try to sit with the present moment or look towards the future, there is a distinct feeling of dread that you cannot seem to shake.”
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