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“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.”

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#PhilSky #philosophy #film #technology #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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“The way up is the way down.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #philosophy #thursday
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #philosophy #tuesday
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”

—Thomas More

#philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.”

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#PhilSky #Friday #Trump
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.”

—Wittgenstein

#PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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“Any day stands equal to the rest.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #philosophy #Greece #monday
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.”

—Rosa Luxemburg

#PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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“The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.”

—Mencius

#PhilSky #philosophy #friday
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.”

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#PhilSky #philosophy #capitalism #thursday #socialism
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.”

—Aristotle

#PhilSky #music #tuesday #philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.”

—Edwin Arlington Robinson

#PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.”

—William Shakespeare 🎃🎃

#PhilSky #Halloween #literature
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Q: “I'm afraid of dying.”

A: “To live with the uncertainty of existence we must dispel the image of a hungry grim reaper hanging about our shadows with a gleaming sickle.”

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#PhilSky #philosophy #Thursday
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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“Never despair.”

—Horace

#PhilSky #poetry #philosophy #tuesday
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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“Our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”

—Karl Marx

#PhilSky #socialistsunday
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“The film is an artifact of western capitalism that evokes Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’”

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#PhilSky #philosophy #film #saturday
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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“A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.”

—Walt Whitman

#PhilSky #poetry #nature #dialectics
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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“There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.”

—Democritus

#philosophy #Greece #MondayMotivation #PhilSky
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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“The common characteristic of all perversions is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim.”

—Sigmund Freud

#philosophy #psychology #Friday #PhilSky
October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Q: What is postmodernism?

A: “Postmodernist politics and culture relies on extensive reference to the past because of an inability to apprehend the future.”

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#PhilSky #philosophy #thursday
October 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“Confound those who have said our words before us.”

—Aelius Donatus

#PhilSky #philosophy #Rome #tuesday
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”

—Plato

#PhilSky #philosophy #monday #thanksgiving
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.”

—William Shakespeare

#PhilSky #literature #friday #philosophy
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“Pursuing ‘superintelligence’ will always be fantastical, akin to running for the horizon in order to touch the clouds.”

Full article: thereclamation.co/will-ai-raise-us-up-to-heaven-or-cast-us-into-hell

#philosophy #AI #technology #thursday #PhilSky
Will AI Raise Us Up to Heaven—or Cast Us Into Hell?
Sentient technology and the future of the West
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