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Every time a man has brought victory to the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to enslave

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Jan 10,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #humanity #ethics #judgment #oppression #solidarity #Frantz Fanon #Black Skin White Masks

Optimism… it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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 Optimism… it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Nov 23,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #voltaire #judgment #optimism #Candide

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

Concepts are at the root of it: greed, hatred, bewilderment depend on what is conceived as desirable, despicable or confusing.

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 Concepts are at the root of it: greed, hatred, bewilderment depend on what is conceived as desirable, despicable or confusing.

Mar 10,2022

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In order to understand why it’s impossible, or almost impossible, for certain people to understand each other, one has to

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Mar 01,2022

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Superiority causes jealousy. Equality causes rivalry. Inferiority causes arrogance. Praise causes intoxication and

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 Superiority causes jealousy. Equality causes rivalry. Inferiority causes arrogance. Praise causes intoxication and

Jan 08,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #criticism #praise #equality #judgment #jealousy #blame #arrogance #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra #rivalry #inequality

So you want to live ‘according to nature?’ Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature,...

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 So you want to live ‘according to nature?’ Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature,...

Mar 26,2021

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To learn to see—to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and

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 To learn to see—to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and

Mar 16,2021

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You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

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 You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

Feb 08,2021

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#quotes #thoughts #Feelings #philosophy #choices #emotions #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #stoicism #judgment #decisions

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one’s relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is

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 If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one’s relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is

Nov 20,2020

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