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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
October 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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“Instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“Instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”
— J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers
— J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”
— J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers
— J. L. Austin, Philosophical Papers
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“Man is not distinguished for his powers of discrimination. He sees solitude and four walls, and says: a study. He dreams of the market-place, where there is noise and jostling, physical bustle, and decides that there alone life is to be met. He is wrong as usual.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“Man is not distinguished for his powers of discrimination. He sees solitude and four walls, and says: a study. He dreams of the market-place, where there is noise and jostling, physical bustle, and decides that there alone life is to be met. He is wrong as usual.
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“When I say that the rules are arbitrary, I mean that they are not determined by reality in the way the description of reality is. And that means: it is nonsense to say that they agree with reality.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar
#philosophy #philsky
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar
#philosophy #philsky
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“When I say that the rules are arbitrary, I mean that they are not determined by reality in the way the description of reality is. And that means: it is nonsense to say that they agree with reality.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar
#philosophy #philsky
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar
#philosophy #philsky
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“Happiness is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of all action.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
October 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“Happiness is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of all action.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
“Pleasure in color, form, and movement, awareness of the amazing diversity of life, and the enjoyment of natural beauty are part of man’s heritage as a living creature.”
— Rachel Carson, Lost Woods
— Rachel Carson, Lost Woods
October 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.
November 17, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.
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November 18, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.
November 17, 2024 at 10:02 AM
It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.
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“Everyone endeavors, as far as possible, to cause others to love what he himself loves, and to hate what he himself hates.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
#philosophy #philsky
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
#philosophy #philsky
November 17, 2024 at 5:55 PM
“Everyone endeavors, as far as possible, to cause others to love what he himself loves, and to hate what he himself hates.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
#philosophy #philsky
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
#philosophy #philsky
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“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they? If they could see what it would do for them, it would not be originality.”
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they? If they could see what it would do for them, it would not be originality.”
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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“The magnetic power exerted by patently threadbare ideologies is to be explained, beyond psychology, by the objectively determined decay of logical evidence as such. Things have come to a pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying.”
— Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
#philosophy #philsky
— Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
#philosophy #philsky
November 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM
“The magnetic power exerted by patently threadbare ideologies is to be explained, beyond psychology, by the objectively determined decay of logical evidence as such. Things have come to a pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying.”
— Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
#philosophy #philsky
— Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
#philosophy #philsky
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“Original love never appears in a pure state, but in manifold forms and disguises, as trust, humility, devotion, cheerfulness, loyalty, shame, and gratitude; but mostly as yearning and secret melancholy.”
— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
#philosophy #philsky
— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
#philosophy #philsky
November 18, 2024 at 2:04 AM
“Original love never appears in a pure state, but in manifold forms and disguises, as trust, humility, devotion, cheerfulness, loyalty, shame, and gratitude; but mostly as yearning and secret melancholy.”
— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
#philosophy #philsky
— Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
#philosophy #philsky