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Your daily dose of wisdom, thought-provoking quotes, and powerful passages from books, philosophers, and history's greatest works. Dive into ideas that inspire, challenge, and ignite curiosity.
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"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."

- Katie Mack, The End of Everything

#Books #Science
January 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

- Plato, The Republic

#Books #Politics
January 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

#Books #Nietzsche #MoralPhilosophy
December 12, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

- Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws

#Books #Politics
December 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

#Books #Politics
December 6, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

#Books #FreedomAndTyranny #Politics
December 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."

- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

#Books #Politics
December 2, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

#Books #Politics
December 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”

- Thomas Mann

#ThomasMann #MoralResponsibility #Politics
November 29, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#Books #Stoicism #Philosophy
November 27, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

- Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

#Books #Politics
November 25, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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"Every moment carries the weight of our freedom to choose who we are becoming."

- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

#Books #Existentialism
November 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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“As algorithms become the ultimate arbiters of decision-making, will humanity relinquish its autonomy for the promise of efficiency?”

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

#Books #HomoDeus #FutureOfAI #AI
November 23, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
- Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#Books #Philosophy
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell, 1984

#Books #1984 #Politics
November 22, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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"We command immense power and enjoy rare luxuries, but we are easily manipulated by our own creations, and by the time we wake up to the danger, it might be too late."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus

#Books #AI
November 21, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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"History began when humans invented gods and will end when humans become gods."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

#Books #AI #FutureOfHumanity
November 21, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."

- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

#Books #Resilience #MeaningOfLife
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#Stoicism #SelfMastery #Books
November 21, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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"Humans run the world because they alone can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Fiction, myths, and shared beliefs—money, nations, religion—are what unite us."

- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

#Books #Sapiens #HumanEvolution
November 21, 2024 at 7:20 PM