Philosophy Bits

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“Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

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““God does not work through the is.” God works through what Lao Tzu calls the weak, the empty; this is the same God.”

— Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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“If one would make a thorough revolution, one must attack things and relationships, destroy property and the state. Then there would be no need to destroy men.”

— Mikhail Bakunin, Complete ...

“It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat — as is the case with the better artists. But it does not seem right that they stop with the historical themes already given and, so to speak, think that only these are suitable for poetic treatment… Why are modern heroes and the like n...