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"I've reached the point on Absolute relation. I feel extremely smart and extremely stupid at the same time. Very much a hegelian problem." — Jan 26, 2026 06:42AM
"I've reached the point on Absolute relation. I feel extremely smart and extremely stupid at the same time. Very much a hegelian problem." — Jan 26, 2026 06:42AM
“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception…. If any one, upon serious and unprejudic'd reflection thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continu'd, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me.”
― A Treatise of Human Nature
― A Treatise of Human Nature
“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.”
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“Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
― The Complete Poems
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
― The Complete Poems
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