Philosophy Bits

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“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

“The desire to be seen as clever often prevents us from becoming so.”

- François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

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“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot… it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer.”

— Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice

“If the past concerns us, it does so not as a brute fact, but insofar as it has human signification; if this signification can be recognized only by a project which refuses the legacy of the past, then this legacy must be refused; it would be absurd to uphold against man a datum which is precious only insofar as the freedom of man is expressed in it. […] It is a sophism to want ...

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“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace