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"“there was a shift toward the subject, the observer or knower, & hence away from the object, the thing being observed or known. This move in the realm of philosophy coincided with a move away from a notion of political & cultural value based on a given individual's position in a traditional religious or hereditary hierarchy & toward the idea that this value is determined by qualities intrinsic to the individual”" — Jun 26, 2026 06:56AM
"“there was a shift toward the subject, the observer or knower, & hence away from the object, the thing being observed or known. This move in the realm of philosophy coincided with a move away from a notion of political & cultural value based on a given individual's position in a traditional religious or hereditary hierarchy & toward the idea that this value is determined by qualities intrinsic to the individual”" — Jun 26, 2026 06:56AM
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“Valei-me Nossa Senhora,
Santo Antonio de Nazare,
A vaca mansa da leite,
A braba da si quise!”
― Macunaima
Santo Antonio de Nazare,
A vaca mansa da leite,
A braba da si quise!”
― Macunaima
“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better if for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.”
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“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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