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“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.”

—Jacques Lacan

#PhilSky #Monday
September 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”

—Alexis de Tocqueville

#SocialistSunday #PhilSky
September 20, 2026 at 8:39 AM
“One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.”

—Heraclitus

#PhilSky #China #Friday
September 18, 2026 at 6:16 PM
“Money, as a matter of principle, makes everything the same.”

—Byung-Chul Han

#BookSky #PhilSky #Wednesday
September 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“Although our lives occupy only a sliver along the time–space continuum, it is the mountain of the past that we live and die upon.”

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#BookSky #PhilSky #Wednesday
September 16, 2026 at 4:58 AM
“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.”

—Thomas Sankara

#PhilSky #Africa
September 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

—Charles Bukowski

#PhilSky #BookSky #Saturday
September 12, 2026 at 10:30 PM
“The danger from advertising is that it destroys our most precious immaterial possessions: the confidence in meaningful human activity and respect for the integrity of man.”

—Paul Sweezy

#PhilSky #Thursday
September 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
“In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.”

—L. Frank Baum

#PhilSky #Wednesday
September 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

—Confucius

#PhilSky #Tuesday
September 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
“With proper context, we can see that the civil liberties and political priorities of Asia are the popular byproduct of unique histories and cultural sensitivities rather than government oppression.”

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#China #PhilSky #Friday
September 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, and in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.”

—Pythagoras

#PhilSky #BookSky #Wednesday
September 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

—Aristotle

#PhilSky #Monday
August 31, 2026 at 5:16 PM
“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”

—Robert Owen

#SocialistSunday #PhilSky
August 30, 2026 at 10:11 AM
“The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.”

—Jacques Lacan

#PhilSky #PsychSciSky #Friday
August 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.”

—Paulo Freire

#PhilSky #BookSky #Thursday
August 27, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“In Manitoba, the Southern Chiefs Organization have seized a limb of the once-zombifying corporate Bay monopoly and are transforming it into an institution to support the living.”

Full post: thereclamation.co/historical-n...

#Canada #PhilSky #Tuesday
August 25, 2026 at 7:19 PM
“A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not.”

—Democritus

#PhilSky #Monday
August 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”

—Albert Einstein

#PhilSky #Saturday
August 22, 2026 at 9:54 PM
“Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.”

—David Harvey

#PhilSky #Thursday
August 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

—Erich Fromm

#PhilSKy #Wednesday
August 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”

—Averroes

#PhilSky #Monday
August 18, 2026 at 12:32 AM
“What the proletarian needs, he can obtain only from this bourgeoisie, which is protected in its monopoly by the power of the state.”

—Friedrich Engels

#PhilSky #socialistsunday
August 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
“It is the powerful who write the laws of the world—and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.”

—Michael Parenti

#PhilSky #friday
August 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
“Romance during the age of chivalry was replaced with something far more transactional and potentially humiliating; Shakespeare’s play reflects the social anxieties brought by the commercial revolution.”

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#BookSky #PhilSky #Thursday
August 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM