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“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

—Plato

#PhilSky #philosophy #Monday
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.”

—Paulo Friere

#PhilSky #philosophy #sunday #socialism
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“True mental health consists in a perfect recollection of the past.”

—Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #friday #PhilSky
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Cooperatives offer enormous pro-social and environmental benefits but this does not count toward GDP or profits—the only measures of capitalist value, even in a world on fire.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/the-revolutionary-potential-of-cooperatives

#thursday #PhilSky #philosophy #politics
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is merely useful for the sake of something else.”

—Aristotle

#philosophy #Tuesday #PhilSky
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Requiem for a Dream is an artifact of western capitalism evoking Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”

Full analysis: thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream

#PhilSky #film #monday
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Man is the creature of circumstances.”

—Robert Owen

#philosophy #socialism #PhilSky #monday
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“The pursuit of an ethnostate has walked Israel into a permanent state of warfare and the monstrous timeline that we find ourselves in only captures the adage: war makes fascists of us all.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-to-end-fascist-terror

#PhilSky #gaza #thursday
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”

—Franz Kafka

#literature #philosophy #tuesday #PhilSky
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.”

—Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.

#Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“All the world's a stage.”

—William Shakespeare

#literature #PhilSky #friday #politics
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel

#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“The way up is the way down.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #philosophy #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”

—Thomas More

#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.”

Read here: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein

#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.”

—Wittgenstein

#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Any day stands equal to the rest.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #philosophy #Greece #monday
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.”

—Rosa Luxemburg

#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.”

—Mencius

#PhilSky #philosophy #friday
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.”

Full article here: thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people

#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fair enough; it is drawn from here although it may be apocryphal, unfortunately. Too bad, I have it in a footnote on Greek philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.”

—Aristotle

#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.”

—Edwin Arlington Robinson

#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.”

—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃

#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM