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Using modern terminology, we may say: Ideas of unperceived things or occurrences can always be defined in terms of perceived things or occurrences, and therefore, by substituting the definition for the term defined, we can always state what we know empirically without introducing any unperceived things or occurrences. As regards our present
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Sam Harris • Free Will
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
Locke is the most fortunate of all philosophers. He completed his work in theoretical philosophy just at the moment when the government of his country fell into the hands of men who shared his political opinions. Both in practice and in theory, the views which he advocated were held, for many years to come, by the most vigorous and influential
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
—The Europeans believe that liberty is promoted by depriving the social authority of some of its rights; the Americans, by dividing its exercise—Almost
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
"We are a republican government. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy"
— Andrew Hamilton
In proportion as a nation assumes a democratic condition of society, and as communities display democratic propensities, it becomes more and more dangerous to connect religion with political institutions;
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature that interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”