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🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1831

"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought...""

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🇦🇹Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1845–1925

"What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts."

"This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!"

"Life is a business that does not cover the costs."

"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

"If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon."

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

"One who liberates his country by killing a tyrant is to be praised and rewarded."

"S’il est terrifiant de penser que la vie puisse être à la merci de la multiplication de ces infiniment petits, il est consolant aussi d’espérer que la science ne restera pas toujours impuissante devant de tels ennemis."

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🇺🇸John F. Kennedy

Politics

"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

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🇺🇸Thomas Mann

Literature

"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."

"The New York Times Featured Author: Philip Roth"

"My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence.""

"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."

"The social game has a deeper double meaning—that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society.""

"It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite."

"The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verständlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another."

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

"For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it."

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🇺🇸David Foster Wallace

Literature

Postmodernism

1962–2008

"Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave"

"Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence."

"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

"If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?"

"I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages."

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."

"There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea."

"Philosopher Nozick dies at 63 From the Harvard Gazette"

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo."

"German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such. P. 16"

"One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values."

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