Philosophy Bits

“Instead of accepting his limits, [man] tries to do away with them. He aspires to act upon everything and by knowing everything. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there developed the dream of a universal science which, manifesting the solidarity of the parts of the whole also admitted a universal power; it was a dream “dreamed by reason,” as Valery puts it, but ...

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“Vanity, when it passes beyond a point, kills pleasure in every activity for its own sake, and thus leads inevitably to listlessness and boredom.”

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thirdity:

“To deconstruct a text is to unpack the meanings that history and the language have packed into it, with particular attention to those meanings that challenge those elements that ideology has made appear s...

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“The history of the American kings of capital and authority is the history of repeated crimes, injustice, oppression, outrage, and abuse, all aiming at the suppression of individual liberties and...