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“A Three pronged test for any belief:
Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people?
How is it to be applied?
Will it benefit the greatest number?

from Against Fate”
― Mozi, The Mozi: A Complete Translation

tags: chinese-philosophy, scientific-method

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“What counts is the question, of what is a body capable? And thereby he sets out one of the most fundamental questions in his whole philosophy (before him there had been Hobbes and others) by saying that the only question is that we don't even know [savons] what a body is capable of, we prattle on about the soul and the mind and we don't know what a body can do.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

tags: what-a-body-can-do

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“Freud expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereupon he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.”
― Ludwig Binswanger

tags: freud, humor, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic, psychology, science, sexualtiy, sigmund-freud

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“Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation. Allow your work and your recreation to be one and the same. Do exercise that develops your whole being and not just your body. Listen to music that bridges the three spheres of your being. Choose leaders for their virtue rather than their wealth or power. Serve others and cultivate yourself simultaneously. Understand that true growth comes from meeting and solving problems of life in a way that is harmonizing to yourself and to others. If you can follow these simple old ways, you will be continually renewed.”
― Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching

tags: being, exercise, service, solving-problems, tao, understanding-oneself, wisdom

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