Lecture

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Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Adolf Loos

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Cultural evolution Minimalism

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Adolf Loos

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Lecture

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

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Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

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Bill of Rights Constitutional theory American politics

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Hugo Black

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Lecture

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English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Black, Hugo L. James Madison lecture. 17 Feb. 1960, New York University School of Law, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; So strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps, no longer exists.

William Jones

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William Jones

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English

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1786 1780s 18th century

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Jones, William. Discourse on the history and culture of the Hindus. Third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society. 2 Feb. 1786, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Arthur Eddington

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Big vs. small Stars Atoms Physics

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Arthur Eddington

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Stars and Atoms

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Eddington, Arthur. Stars and Atoms. The Clarendon Press, 1938, lecture 1. Originally a discourse called "Stars and Atoms." Meeting of the British Association. Aug. 1926, Oxford, England, UK.

The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

Albert A. Michelson

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Scientific progress Laws of physics

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Albert A. Michelson

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Lecture

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Prophecies and predictions

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English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Michelson, Albert A. "Comparison of the Microscope and Telescope with the Interferometer." Light Waves and Their Uses lecture series. 1899, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

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Politics War

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Mao Zedong

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Lecture

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Chinese

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Zedong, Mao. "On Protracted Warfare." Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. 26 May - 3 June 1938, Yenan, China. Lecture series.

One life; a little gleam of time between two eternities.

Thomas Carlyle

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Ephemeral nature of life Life

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Thomas Carlyle

Source

The Hero as Man of Letters

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Lecture

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English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

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Class conflict Political power Government

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Joseph Stalin

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Foundations of Leninism

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Lecture

Language

Russian

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Stalin, Joseph. The Foundations of Leninism. International Publishers, 1970, ch. 4, sect. 2. Originally a lecture called "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Foundations of Leninism lecture series. 1924, Sverdlov University, Moscow, Russia.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conservative

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Conservatism Politics

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Conservative

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Conservative." 9 Dec. 1841, Masonic Temple, Boston, MA, USA.

It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe.

G.W.F. Hegel

On America.

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America America and Europe

Author

G.W.F. Hegel

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Wold History: Introduction

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

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Preparation Fortune

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Louis Pasteur

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Lecture

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French

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

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Pasteur, Louis. Speech in Douai. On the occasion of the solemn installation of the Faculty of Arts of Douai and the Faculty of Sciences of Lille. 7 Dec. 1854, Douai, France.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau)

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Nature

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Henry David Thoreau

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Walking (Thoreau)

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

T.H. Huxley

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Knowledge

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T.H. Huxley

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On Elemental Instruction in Physiology

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Elemental Instruction in Physiology." 1877. Lecture.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things are either what they appear to be; or they are neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Epictetus

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Appearance vs. reality Perception

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Epictetus

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Discourses

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Lecture

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Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

108 100s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 1, ch. 27.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 27.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolution; unerring decisions.

Epictetus

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Philosophers Philosophy

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Epictetus

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Discourses

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Lecture

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Philosophical literature

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Greek

Time

108 100s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 2, ch. 8.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 8.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

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Intellectual humility Certainty Obstacles to learning Learning

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Epictetus

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Discourses

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Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

108 100s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 2, ch. 17.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 17.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau)

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Nature Wilderness Civilization Human nature

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Henry David Thoreau

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Walking (Thoreau)

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Freedom Political theory Politics

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Lord Acton

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The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Lord Acton. "The History of Freedom in Antiquity." 26 Feb. 1877, Bridgnorth Institute, Bridgnorth, England, UK. Address.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

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Science and religion Science Myth

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Karl Popper

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Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Popper, Karl. "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report." British Philosophy in the Mid-Century: A Cambridge Symposium, edited by C. A. Mace. Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The Eagle's Nest

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Wealth as burden Downsides of wealth

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John Ruskin

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The Eagle's Nest

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Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. Lecture given at the University of Oxford. 22 Feb. 1872, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.