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"Knowledge, fol survival any conscious organism, is the means of survival; to a living think a consciousness, every "is' implies an "ought.”" — Oct 26, 2026 02:01PM
"Knowledge, fol survival any conscious organism, is the means of survival; to a living think a consciousness, every "is' implies an "ought.”" — Oct 26, 2026 02:01PM
“I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with *your* essence are valuable to me.”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
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“If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“ One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call'd, Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord Envie them that? can it be sin to know, Can it be death? and do they onely stand By Ignorance, is that thir happie state, The proof of thir obedience and thir faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with designe To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such, They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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