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Raoul Vaneigem: The organization controlling...

Raoul Vaneigem: The organization controlling...

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us...

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Raoul Vaneigem: In the twentieth...

Raoul Vaneigem: In the twentieth...

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized,...

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Lu Yan: Whoever has done...

Lu Yan: Whoever has done...

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death...

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Lemuel B Haynes: The reality of...

Lemuel B Haynes: The reality of...

The reality of a future punishment is so clearly impressed on the human mind that even Satan is constrained to won...

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Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

The serpent, before he set up preaching universal salvation, was a cunning, beautiful, and happy creature; but now his...

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Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

[Satan] is a very laborious, unwearied preacher. He has been in the minis try almost six thousand years, and yet his...

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Isaac Watts: A flower, when...

Isaac Watts: A flower, when...

A flower, when offered in the bud,
is no vain sacrifice.


Source: Song xii.
--...

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: He who wishes...

Jose Ortega y Gasset: He who wishes...

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: It is hard...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: It is hard...

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of...

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Diogenes: As a matter...

Diogenes: As a matter...

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the...

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Georg Hegel: An idea is...

Georg Hegel: An idea is...

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to...

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Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he...

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Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

Chuang-tzu: He who pursues...

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Source: In...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A confession has...

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Source: Culture and Value (ed. by G....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Friend may...

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Source: Essays,...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Georges Bernanos: It is the...

Georges Bernanos: It is the...

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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Georges Bernanos: The world is...

Georges Bernanos: The world is...

The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never...

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Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

Richard C Trench: As shadows attend...

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Robert South: Wonder is from...

Robert South: Wonder is from...

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Source: In The...

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