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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

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 It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

Oct 19,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #courage #Simone de Beauvoir #The Ethics of Ambiguity #existence #reason #existentialism

Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly

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 Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly

Oct 21,2020

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#quotes #Feelings #philosophy #humanity #emotions #reason #Martha Nussbaum #Upheavals of Thought #rationality

Reason contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the

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 Reason contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the

Nov 06,2020

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#quotes #change #philosophy #ignorance #criticism #society #reason #progress #rationality #Herbert Marcuse #One Dimensional Man #critique

Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, which degrade man from rational being to beast, which

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 Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, which degrade man from rational being to beast, which

Nov 09,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #faith #truth #reason #rationality #corruption #Baruch Spinoza #Tractatus Theologico Politicus #prejudice

Upon this first rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with

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 Upon this first rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with

Nov 10,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #learning #growth #reason #education #progress #Charles Sanders Peirce #Collected Papers

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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 The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Nov 14,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #greed #thinking #reason #rationality #desires #Mary Wollstonecraft #appetites #envy

My wonderful man, you’re trying to refute me in oratorical style, the way people in law courts do when they think they’

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 My wonderful man, you’re trying to refute me in oratorical style, the way people in law courts do when they think they’

Nov 24,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #plato #honesty #reason #Socrates #Gorgias #rhetoric #argument

As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through

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 As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through

Dec 18,2020

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#quotes #words #philosophy #language #thinking #reason #logic #mathematics #Max Horkheimer #Eclipse of Reason

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

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 I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

Dec 18,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #power #politics #reason #Authority #morality #ethics #Mary Wollstonecraft #A Vindication of the Rights of Woman #obligation

Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on

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 Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on

Dec 23,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #belief #justification #Bertrand Russell #Mortals and Others #warrant #evidence #error

What is at issue here is not whether this or that happened; that, instead, reason by itself and independently of all

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 What is at issue here is not whether this or that happened; that, instead, reason by itself and independently of all

Dec 30,2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself;

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 It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself;

Apr 30,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #reason #reflection #sympathy #danger #Jean Jacques Rousseau #compassion #Discourse on Inequality #connection

Reason: the rust of our vitality. We cannot be normal and alive at the same time. We derive our vitality from our store

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 Reason: the rust of our vitality. We cannot be normal and alive at the same time. We derive our vitality from our store

May 12,2021

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#psychology #quotes #quoteoftheday #writer #writing #literature #books #quote #words #wisdom #lit #art #madness #philosophy #prose #quotation #philosopher #bibliophile #beauty #psychoanalysis #literary #alive #reason #artist #intellectual honesty #emil cioran #the temptation to exist #vitality #normal

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

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

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

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 As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Jan 07,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #reason #Authority #autonomy #Bertrand Russell #oppression #Unpopular Essays

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