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“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: compassion, humanity

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“We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.”
― Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents

tags: philosophy

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“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”
― Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

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“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: diogenes, greece, philosopher, philosophy

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