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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

—Alain Badiou

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MindOntologyPhilosophy
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Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren’t two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what...

—Eric Kaplan

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HumorMetaphysicsOntology
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape,...

—René Descartes

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EthicsLogicMetaphysics
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The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

—Ashim Shanker

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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist...

—George Orwell

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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, “I am.” We are ontological oxymorons.

—Peter Kreeft

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Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

—Ashim Shanker

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I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reawakeneth out of his first sleep.—But there is something in...

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

—Raheel Farooq

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BeingExistenceLogic
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At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

—Ashim Shanker

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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its...

—Jeremy Bentham

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Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say:...

—Victor Pelevin

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In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City,...

—Ashim Shanker

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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of...

—Jeremy Bentham

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Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

—Slavoj Žižek

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He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a...

—Ashim Shanker

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Approximate-TruthOntologyPast-And-Future
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious...

—Donna J.

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But—let me tell you my cat joke. It’s very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she’s got a lovely five-pound T-bone steak sitting on the sideboard in the kitchen waiting...

—Philip K.

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The resurrection of the body – what do we really mean by this? …Did not the mystics and sages of all times teach us that the positive meaning of death is precisely that it liberates...

—Alexander Schmemann

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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel…it’s ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear....

—John Green

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To be more precise… death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about...

—Alexander Schmemann

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ChristianCreationDeath
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I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is...

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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EthicsLogicMetaphysics
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In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the...

—Christopher Hitchens

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What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

—John Shelby Spong

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In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire–in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation–that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for...

—Christos Yannaras

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Being-HumanDesireExistence
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The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

—John K. Brown

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That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both pled their cases earnestly. She covered Her ears and moaned in...

—David Eagleman

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That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

—John K. Brown

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