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The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

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 The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

Mar 29,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #language #Ludwig Wittgenstein #reason #rationality #logic #rules #norms #Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

The connections of isolated phenomena can very rarely be discerned. As a rule, several causes at once produce one effect.

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 The connections of isolated phenomena can very rarely be discerned. As a rule, several causes at once produce one effect.

Mar 22,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #cause #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible #causality #effect #interdependence

From a higher point of view, untruth has a much worse side than the usual one. It is the foundation of a false world —

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 From a higher point of view, untruth has a much worse side than the usual one. It is the foundation of a false world —

Mar 19,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #falsehood #novalis #confusion #error #Logological Fragments II #untruth

Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on

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 Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on

Mar 16,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #ignorance #uncertainty #Chance #luck #belief #opinions #certainty #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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

Fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes

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 Fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes

Mar 09,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #rhetoric #confusion #Lucretius #On the Nature of Things #illusions #delusions

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

Best for a person is to live his life being as cheerful and as little distressed as possible. This will occur if he does

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 Best for a person is to live his life being as cheerful and as little distressed as possible. This will occur if he does

Mar 06,2024

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #suffering #joy #fragments #Stress #pleasure #Democritus

If objects are given, then at the same time we are given all objects. If elementary propositions are given, then at the

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 If objects are given, then at the same time we are given all objects. If elementary propositions are given, then at the

Mar 05,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #language #world #Ludwig Wittgenstein #logic #objects #Tractatus Logico Philosophicus #totality

To define force — it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man

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 To define force — it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man

Mar 04,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #power #Simone Weil #oppression #force #The Iliad or The Poem of Force #objectification #alienation

A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but

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 A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but

Mar 03,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #friedrich nietzsche #character #ethics #virtue #Assorted Opinions and Maxims

Pictures, images, and other symbolical representations speak to the imagination. The mighty fortress of the human heart

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 Pictures, images, and other symbolical representations speak to the imagination. The mighty fortress of the human heart

Mar 02,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #Mystery #imagination #reason #rationality #images #Frederick Douglass #symbols #Lecture on Pictures

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

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 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

Feb 29,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #Ralph Waldo Emerson #expression #opinions #The Conduct of Life

A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

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 A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

Feb 27,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #character #ethics #virtue #merit #reputation #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible #flaws

If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

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 If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

Feb 26,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #choices #reason #notes from underground #rationality #desire #will #logic #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #norms #free will #calculation

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

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

Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

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 Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

Feb 18,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #politics #morality #ethics #ideas #economics #Friedrich Schlegel

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of

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 Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of

Feb 17,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #language #reality #realism #idealism #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #abstract #distinctions #abstraction #The House of the Dead

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same

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 Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same

Feb 15,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #poverty #politics #crime #John Stuart Mill #Principles of Political Economy

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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 The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Feb 14,2024

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#love #quotes #oscar wilde #philosophy #Mystery #salome

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth,

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 Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth,

Feb 12,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #hate #war #justice #injustice #lies #Bertrand Russell #conflict #Justice in War Time #dishonesty