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All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

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 All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

Feb 21,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #hope #Fear #language #images #actions #expression #desires #doubt #Frederick Douglass #Lecture on Pictures

I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

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 I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

Feb 20,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #friedrich nietzsche #choices #reason #rationality #belief #actions #The Gay Science

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

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 One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Jan 15,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #Fear #friedrich nietzsche #human all too human #vanity #emotions #pride #actions #habits

There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other.

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 There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other.

Jan 09,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #imagination #society #actions #ideas #culture #Nikolai Berdyaev #Slavery and Freedom

A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should

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 A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should

Dec 13,2023

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #philosophy #choices #ethics #actions #Civil Disobedience

He that does good to another does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for

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 He that does good to another does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for

Nov 14,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #good #Seneca #ethics #virtue #actions #On Benefits

I want to linger on the word “frame.” What turns a walk into a strut is precisely a frame, even if the frame is only a

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 I want to linger on the word “frame.” What turns a walk into a strut is precisely a frame, even if the frame is only a

Jun 15,2023

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#quotes #language #meaning #zadie Smith #actions #Intentions #Smith

How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it

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 How can you tell a man there’s nothing to do? I can’t imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it

Jan 10,2023

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#time #quotes #life #philosophy #humanity #work #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #actions #The Adolescent

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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 Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

Jan 07,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #meaning #humanity #purpose #existence #existentialism #values #Jean Paul Sartre #actions #being #Existentialism is a Humanism

Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

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 Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

Dec 17,2022

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#quotes #words #philosophy #language #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Philosophical Investigations #actions #confession #renunciation

Fixations spawn thoughts that provoke compulsive acts — emptiness stops fixations. … When things dissolve, there’s nothing

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 Fixations spawn thoughts that provoke compulsive acts — emptiness stops fixations. … When things dissolve, there’s nothing

Nov 16,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #peace #emptiness #actions #desires #Nāgārjuna #Mūlamadhyamakakārikā #liberation #clinging

Great delights come from beholding fine deeds.

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 Great delights come from beholding fine deeds.

Nov 11,2022

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #fragments #ethics #values #actions #pleasure #Democritus

At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations.

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 At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations.

Nov 08,2022

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#quotes #books #reading #philosophy #notes from underground #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #boredom #actions

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the

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 We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the

Nov 25,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #ethics #actions #Mikhail Bakunin #principles #Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus,...

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 Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus,...

May 21,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #ethics #Epictetus #theory #actions #philosophers #The Enchiridion #demonstration

Once a man receives this fixed bodily form, he holds on to it, waiting for the end. Sometimes clashing with things,

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 Once a man receives this fixed bodily form, he holds on to it, waiting for the end. Sometimes clashing with things,

May 15,2021

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#quotes #life #philosophy #suffering #humanity #body #zhuangzi #actions #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi

This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so

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 This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so

May 12,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #society #choices #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #actions #ambition #culture

Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a ‘we’ and not an 'I.’ Only if I

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 Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a ‘we’ and not an 'I.’ Only if I

May 05,2021

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#history #quotes #philosophy #future #past #present #Hannah Arendt #The New York Review of Books #actions #contingency #consequences

Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases,...

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 Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases,...

Feb 25,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #choices #Authority #freedom #liberty #actions #obligation #duty #Pierre Joseph Proudhon #necessity

Why shouldn’t I eat toothpaste? It’s a free world. Why shouldn’t I chew my toenails? I happen to have trodden in some honey.

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 Why shouldn’t I eat toothpaste? It’s a free world. Why shouldn’t I chew my toenails? I happen to have trodden in some honey.

Feb 18,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #choices #freedom #liberty #actions #decisions #Derek Parfit #Eton Microcosm #reasons

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Feb 14,2021

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#quotes #life #philosophy #choices #Ralph Waldo Emerson #Journals #actions #experiments

To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

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 To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

Jan 13,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #self #reason #rationality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #virtue #actions

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for

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 A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for

Jan 10,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #success #friedrich nietzsche #learning #questions #failure #actions #answers #The Gay Science #experiments

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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 Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Jan 03,2021

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#quotes #wisdom #philosophy #learning #actions #intelligence #Alfred North Whitehead #Dialogues #ability