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  1. RT @microphilosophy: The high ground isn't very moral if its occupier simply sits and allows wrong to prevail on the plains below. 1:52 AM Dec 4th from web
  2. 'What is bought with money, or with goods, is purchased by labour' - not Marx but Adam Smith, from Introducing Capitalism 4:10 AM Nov 19th from web
  3. 'Philosophy is not a teaching but an activity' Wittgenstein 2:02 AM Nov 12th from web
  4. 'Philosophy is not a teaching but an activity' Wittgenstein 9:25 AM Nov 4th from web
  5. 'The purpose of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts' Wittgenstein 5:02 AM Oct 28th from web
  6. A Greek philosopher named Democritus first proposed the concept of atoms (it means “indivisible” in Greek). 3:13 AM Oct 26th from web
  7. 'Time is what keeps everything from happening at once' from Introducing Chaos http://bit.ly/3cLCw5 6:23 AM Oct 14th from web
  8. 'There is only the positive method of looking at the connection between observable facts. Anything beyond experience is irrelevant' Comte 2:19 AM Sep 29th from web
  9. RT @brianclegg What is an open space before it is an open space? 4:36 AM Sep 24th from web
  10. Language exists before any one of us does. As “individuals” we are structured by what always pre-dates us as already “meaning” 2:05 AM Sep 15th from web
  11. 'The first step in the investigation of a fact must therefore be a description of the individual elements of which it consists' – Wundt 1:44 AM Sep 3rd from web
  12. 'Whenever a certain amount of energy disappears in one place, an equivalent amount must appear elsewhere in the same system' von Helmholtz 6:47 AM Sep 2nd from web
  13. 'Culture becomes the main source of income in an age in which it is no longer a problem to supply mankind’s material needs' Intro Capitalism 1:17 AM Aug 28th from web
  14. Normal conversation only requires our attention intermittently. Life is too rich for attending to language all the time - from Mind & Brain 9:17 AM Aug 14th from web
  15. "A side-effect of mass culture is the gradual disappearance of any “serious” art, art which can criticize and transform social reality" 3:47 AM Aug 12th from web
  16. 'Scorn not the Sonnet...with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.' William Wordsworth on Shakespeare's Sonnets - Introducing Shakespeare 9:13 AM Aug 11th from web
  17. Being a moral person involves not just knowing what is right, but choosing it as well – Aristotle 2:53 AM Aug 4th from web
  18. Socrates always claimed that he knew nothing which is why the Delphic oracle called him “the wisest man in Greece” - Introducing Philosophy 8:54 AM Jul 23rd from web
  19. Culture becomes the main source of income in an age in which it is no longer a problem to supply mankind’s material needs [Intro Capitalism] 8:06 AM Jul 22nd from web
  20. 'Physical objects themselves are nothing more than convenient myths that do the job of explaining and predicting experience' Intro Logic 1:24 AM Jul 17th from web