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In 1869, the Colored National Labor Union was formed to represent the unique interests of Black workers who had been shut out of the larger National Labor Union. Its first president, Isaac Myers, was cofounder of the Colored Caulkers Trade ...more
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Aldous Huxley
“Everything's incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put on it. Every object and event contains within itself an infinity of depths within depths.”
Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

Karl Jaspers
“To the intellect all else, in comparison with what is correct, counts only as feeling, subjectivity, instinct. In this division, apart from the bright world of the intellect, there is only the irrational, in which is lumped together, according to the point of view, what is despised or desired. The impulse which pursues real truth by thought springs from the dissatisfaction with what is merely correct. The division, spoken of previously, paralyses this impulse; it causes man to oscillate between the dogmatism of the intellect that transcends its limits and, as it were, the rapture of the vital, the chance of the moment, life. The soul becomes impoverished in all the multiplicity of disparate experience. Then truth disappears from the field of vision and is replaced by a variety of opinions which are hung on the skeleton of a supposedly rational pattern. Truth is infinitely more than scientific correctness.”
Karl Jaspers, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Walter Kaufmann
“When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.”
Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre

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