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"Kant views humans as ends in themselves, rational beings deserving respect. Only act in ways you’d want everyone to act, as treating people as mere means violates their dignity. We can reason and make deliberate choices, unlike other sentient beings. True moral action requires autonomy; universal law means acting from reason, not heteronomy.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​" 19 hours, 42 min ago

 
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“74. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Pier Vittorio Tondelli
“Abbiamo bisogno di tempo. Di mettere tempo fra noi. Di vivere insieme, di viaggiare insieme, perché il nostro pensiero riconosca istintivamente l'altro; e lo riconosca come una presenza automatica di consuetudine e di affetto. Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli.”
Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

Thomas Pynchon
“Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon’s tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer microelectrode is yet too gross for finding.”
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing in it, and in that belief demanding immediate participation in it with all the strength of his soul; demanding an immediate deed, with an unfailing desire to sacrifice everything for this deed, even life. Although, unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish - such sacrifice is often almost beyond the strength of many of them.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamozov

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