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“Collection of Articles by Li-Zhi Fang , maintained by his former students”

“All of us have direct experience of the Supreme.”

“If every one of those good words — liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights — has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?”

“A rising economic power that violates human rights is a threat to peace.”

“Scientific Articles of Li-Zhi Fang Since 1989”

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"For on these matters we should not trust the multitude who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to philosophers, who say that the educated alone are free."

— Epictetus

Philosophy50–138

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"Lincoln, as we know, supported that Act as part of the Compromise of 1850. But in his inaugural address he mentioned several respects in which that law should be modified so that it would be consisten…"

— Harry V. Jaffa

Philosophy1918–2015

#knowledge

"Khrushchev’s wager was that his confession would strengthen the communist movement – and in the short term he was right. One should always remember that the Khrushchev era was the last period of authe…"

— Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy1949

#faith

"The student of social psychology ... is concerned not so much with the panaceas that may be proposed for the solution of the economic problems, but is interested rather in the possibility that under a…"

— Everett Dean Martin

Philosophy1880–1941

#education