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He knows enough to recognize the faults of others, but he doesn’t know his own faults. What can I do with a man like this? …

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 He knows enough to recognize the faults of others, but he doesn’t know his own faults. What can I do with a man like this? …

Mar 12,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #self #awareness #understanding #zhuangzi #others #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #daoism

Contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes

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 Contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes

Mar 11,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #awareness #meditation #thinking #reflection #contemplation #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy

What is heard, reflected upon, or cultivated in meditation, like water in a leaky jar, does not stay in the memory of a

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 What is heard, reflected upon, or cultivated in meditation, like water in a leaky jar, does not stay in the memory of a

Mar 07,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #memory #awareness #meditation #buddhism #perception #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,

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 When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,

Feb 22,2024

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#quotes #wisdom #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #patience #truth #awareness #reality

When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words rely on vain show, then we have the rights and wrongs of the

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 When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words rely on vain show, then we have the rights and wrongs of the

Feb 05,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #reason #clarity #rationality #values #zhuangzi #distinctions #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #norms #daoism

One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

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 One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Feb 03,2024

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#quotes #life #philosophy #awareness #choices #albert camus #values #The Myth of Sisyphus

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

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 Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Jan 30,2024

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#quotes #life #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #awareness #future #present

The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul is like a revelation.

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 The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul is like a revelation.

Jan 19,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #awareness #Simone Weil #Gravity and Grace #revelation

What ordinary people do and what they find happiness in — I don’t know whether or not such happiness is, in the end,

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 What ordinary people do and what they find happiness in — I don’t know whether or not such happiness is, in the end,

Jan 08,2024

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#quotes #life #Happiness #philosophy #awareness #zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #daoism

Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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 Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

Jan 03,2024

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#quotes #writers #change #Artists #philosophy #creativity #poets #awareness #progress #images #Frederick Douglass #Pictures and Progress

The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

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 The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

Dec 22,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #awareness #understanding #Ludwig Wittgenstein #values #Nachlass

I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

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 I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

Dec 19,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #awareness #thinking #Saint Genet #Jean-Paul Sartre #discoveries

Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

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 Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

Dec 16,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #self #awareness #Ludwig Wittgenstein #humanity #values #logic #Letter to Bertrand Russell

‘Truth’ and the search for truth are no trivial matter; and if a person goes about searching in too human a fashion, I’ll bet

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 ‘Truth’ and the search for truth are no trivial matter; and if a person goes about searching in too human a fashion, I’ll bet

Dec 03,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #friedrich nietzsche #awareness #Beyond Good and Evil #seeking

Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

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 Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

Nov 26,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #suffering #awareness #Ludwig Wittgenstein #courage #growth #thinking #honesty #Letter to Norman Malcolm

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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 Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Nov 16,2023

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#love #quotes #philosophy #awareness #ethics #justice #Simone Weil #force #The Iliad or The Poem of Force

There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

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 There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

Nov 12,2023

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#demons #quotes #change #philosophy #harmony #truth #awareness #understanding #growth #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #eternity

My friend, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings,...

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 My friend, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings,...

Feb 25,2023

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#love #quotes #philosophy #awareness #humanity #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #compassion #The Adolescent

The best expedient to prevent confusion, is to be modest in our pretensions; and even to discover the difficulty

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 The best expedient to prevent confusion, is to be modest in our pretensions; and even to discover the difficulty

Feb 21,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #ignorance #modesty #confusion #humility #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

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 Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

Feb 03,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #awareness #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #the idiot #compassion

Aimless wandering does not know what it seeks; demented drifting does not know where it goes. A wanderer, idle, unbound, I

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 Aimless wandering does not know what it seeks; demented drifting does not know where it goes. A wanderer, idle, unbound, I

Jan 22,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #purpose #freedom #liberty #clarity #zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #seeking

Do you not see that you are devouring each other in the carelessness of your thought?

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 Do you not see that you are devouring each other in the carelessness of your thought?

Jan 02,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #awareness #thinking #reason #fragments #harm #Empedocles #carelessness

My mind is tired & stale… I think I could discuss philosophy if I had someone here to discuss with, but alone I can’

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 My mind is tired & stale… I think I could discuss philosophy if I had someone here to discuss with, but alone I can’

Dec 25,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #mind #Ludwig Wittgenstein #communication #discussion #fatigue

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

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 Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

Dec 09,2022

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#quotes #people #wisdom #philosophy #awareness #advice #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #the idiot #children