As there are costs for non-compliance, there are costs for compliance, viz., the death of the mind. Judith Butler
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Category Archives: political science
Philosophy & Unlearning
The real social function of philosophy is to prevent mankind from losing itself in the ideas which the existing organization of society instills into its members.
M. Horkheimer
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Art Sees
Their function has been to make us see what we do not naturally perceive: They are the artists. H. Bergson
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Nature’s Comrade
The philosopher neither obeys nor commands; she seeks to be at one with nature.
H. Bergson
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Living Ideas
It is foolish to reckon that ideas are present only when they explicitly declare themselves.
Molly Worthen
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Second-Hand World
Between consciousness & existence stand meanings, designs, communications which other men have passed on.
C.W. Mills
#twisdom #mediation
Pain’s Gain
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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Self Art
Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow up in him!
Nietzsche
#twisdom #autoMediation
Pretended War
The loss of liberty at home is charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
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Unequal Crime
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
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