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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Proust gave an allergic account of what was about to befall all love. The exchange relationship that love partially withstood throughout the bourgeois age has completely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all the contracting parties from all others. Love is chilled by the value that the ego places on itself. Loving at all seems to it like loving ...

suliqyre:Awareness is the amalgam of everything we have seen in all of our experiences throughout life. In this way, awareness might be thought of as a kind of memory we have formed. But unlike the memories we can directly recall and explore, awareness only reaches us through intuitions that arise from it.A past event that we have no ability to recall might still have influen...

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“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.” — Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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[Revised entry by Edward N. Zalta on August 1, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b. 1848, d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena. Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the […]

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