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“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”

Book:Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

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“Jacob, my old friend came first. he was sad. I shouted down to him, "The stake, old friend of a lifetime, do something!" "But we all sit on one", was his reply. "I don't see you on one," I objected. "And we see nobody else's either. Each of us is alone, on his own stake. This is the stake we share.”

Suffering Inaction Commonality

Author:Emile Habiby

“A true woman wants her whims to be an international suffering.”

Suffering Woman Whims

Book:Plotless

Source: Plotless

“someone must suffer if the rest are to enjoy luxury”

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Book:The Stone Sky

Source: The Stone Sky

“Suffering is only for a short time as it seems right for crucifixion of the fleshy soul.”

Inspirational Suffering Wise Thoughts Do Not Give Up

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“... when we take into account what we know about happiness and suffering in psychological and neuroscientific terms, we find reasons to doubt that (to use Popper’s phrase) we can treat degrees of pain as “negative degrees of pleasure”, and to doubt that pleasure can ethically “cancel out” pain — any more than putting people far above a water surface can cancel out or outweigh the bad of putting people far below it.”

Happiness Suffering Ethics Utilitarianism

Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

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