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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

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

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

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

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

The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability

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 The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability

Jan 21,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #Bertrand Russell #law #norms #A History of Western Philosophy #liberalism #dogma

An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents,

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 An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents,

Jan 18,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #language #reason #rationality #perception #Max Horkheimer #Eclipse of Reason #objectivity

My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

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 My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

Jan 14,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #søren kierkegaard #reason #rationality #doubt #skepticism #Journals and Papers

Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

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 Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

Dec 20,2023

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#quotes #art #philosophy #creativity #imagination #reason #rationality #Frederick Douglass #Pictures and Progress

To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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 To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

Mar 09,2023

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#love #quotes #philosophy #suffering #knowledge #reason #Martha Nussbaum #rationality #intellect #Love’s Knowledge

There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

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 There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

Jan 09,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #self #søren kierkegaard #reason #rationality #Spirit #values #proof #The Concept of Anxiety

A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it is not the passion,...

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 A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it is not the passion,...

Dec 27,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #emotions #reason #rationality #judgment #passions #David Hume #A Treatise of Human Nature

Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

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 Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

Dec 04,2022

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#history #quotes #philosophy #søren kierkegaard #truth #reason #rationality #contingency #necessity #Concluding Unscientific Postscript

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

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 At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

Feb 05,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #creativity #rationality #chaos #irony #reasons #Frederick Douglass #arguments

It is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she

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 It is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she

Dec 22,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #reason #rationality #Immanuel Kant #Critique of Pure Reason

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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 Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Dec 15,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #Ludwig Wittgenstein #reason #rationality #logic #Notebooks 1914 1916

A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A

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 A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A

Apr 29,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #belief #Robert Nozick #Philosophical Explanations #normativity

Here, as elsewhere, human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible

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 Here, as elsewhere, human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible

Mar 03,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #reason #rationality #Immanuel Kant #morality #ethics #Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.

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 In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.

Feb 17,2021

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#goals #quotes #philosophy #reality #reason #rationality #stubbornness #Max Horkheimer #Eclipse of Reason #obstinacy #conformity #ends

Is it not in reasoning if anywhere that any reality becomes clear to the soul? … And indeed the soul reasons best when none

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 Is it not in reasoning if anywhere that any reality becomes clear to the soul? … And indeed the soul reasons best when none

Jan 30,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #reality #plato #reason #clarity #rationality #Phaedo #reasoning

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

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 Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Jan 24,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #ethics #Epictetus #Discourses #principles

There is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,...

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 There is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,...

Jan 21,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #society #politics #reason #rationality #Cicero #justice #law #De Legibus

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

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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 The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Jan 06,2021

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#quotes #art #Artists #philosophy #creativity #world #Theodor W. Adorno #rationality #Aesthetic Theory