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Psychology Daily - Quotes

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Psychology Daily - Quotes

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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual (via philosophybits)

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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Mikhail Bakunin, in Michael Bakunin, by E.H. Carr (via philosophybits)

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“I don’t trust anybody’s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”

— Don DeLillo, White Noise (via quotespile)

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“Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.”

— Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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“Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: ‘Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.’”

— Hannah Arendt, “Interview with Roger Errera”, The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978)

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“The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.”

— R. G. Collingwood, The Map of Knowledge

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“Whenever you are about to be oppressed, you have a right to resist oppression: whenever you conceive yourself to be oppressed, conceive yourself to have a right to make resistance, and act accordingly.”

— Jeremy Bentham, Anarchical Fallacies

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It is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (via philosophybits)

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We ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Franz Kafka, “Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)” (via philosophybits)

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The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s task was to reveal the mystery of the world and the mystery of reason.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (via philosophybits)

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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne, Essais (via philosophybits)

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Psychology Daily - Quotes

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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

Albert Camus, “The Failing of Prophecy” (via philosophybits)