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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! “Show Respect to All People, But Grovel to none.” – Tecumseh “It Does Not Require Many Words to Speak The truth.” – Chief Joseph 💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #culture #meme #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 8h

…who would willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind as was here collected in one individual! -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #literature #culture #meme

Title: Repose
Artist: John White Alexander
Date: 1895
Medium: Oil on canvas

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours…a solitary walk in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pleased by the preference of one… offended by the neglect of the other …I have courted prepossession & ignorance, and driven reason away.. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From the very beginning…your manners, your arrogance, your conceit, your selfish disdain of the feelings of others…built so immovable a dislike… -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. -Isaac Asimov 💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #culture #meme #BannedBooksWeek

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…the feeling that the comfort of intimacy was over; … …it was for the sake of what had been rather than what was. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while,among those who are at all his equals..—— he is a very different man to the less prosperous. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

Oh! How heartily did she grieve—over every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

-a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But to live with and to marry, I do not know that any of the four can come into competition with Elizabeth. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I should have been most in love with Beatrix & Argemone; I think, for mere occasional companionship, have preferred Diana & Barbara. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Their names are, in chronological order, Elizabeth Bennet, Diana Vernon, Argemone Lavington, Beatrix Esmond, and Barbara Grant. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

…there are at least five with whom, as it seems to me, no man of taste and spirit can help doing so. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love;… -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“A silenced press is the first breath of tyranny. Truth is the only weapon that makes the powerful tremble.” 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes #civics

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." -Friedrich Nietzsche💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes #jokesters #humor #satire

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everything is over between us two. But now I don’t love anything, and I hate myself for ever having loved you. Love you again? That’s not possible! Live with you? I will not do it! -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

..what you ask is impossible. I don’t love you anymore. You love me still…I might tell you some other lie, but I don’t choose to.. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Before us lies the public world, the professional system, with its possessiveness, its jealousy, its pugnacity, its greed." -Three Guineas💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Behind us lies the patriarchal system; the private house, with its nullity, its immorality, its hypocrisy, its servility.” -Three Guineas💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But she, like all women & cats, who won’t come if you call them, & do come if you don’t call them, stopped short in front of me, & spoke.. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

‘Woman and Dog.’
Christina Malman (1935)

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There was something strange and wild about her beauty. Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

Watercolor by Prosper Mérimée of a scene from his novella "Carmen”

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“A mere savage prejudice,” said I to myself. “I shall have to answer for all the crimes this brigand may commit in the future.” -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

Manuel Cabral and Aguado Bejarano. Scene of a sale. 1855.
Carmen Thyssen Museum. Malaga

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source & cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.” -Dante Alighieri, Inferno 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Unlike the others, morons cannot be observed under a microscope; they are most easily detected making confident statements about subjects they do not understand. 💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #meme #science #jokesters #humor #satire

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In a stunning development, researchers have confirmed that the universe is composed of neutrons, protons, electrons, and morons. 💙📚 #philosophy #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #science #jokesters #humor #satire

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -Albert Einstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #science

Photograph of the Milky Way in the night sky over Black Rock Desert, Nevada taken on 7/22/2007.

It is a 54 second exposure taken with a tripod mounted Canon EOS 5D digital camera with a 16 mm lens, wide open at f2.8 and ISO 800.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Are you mad, my friend? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own…Farewell I leave you.. -Frankenstein💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #meme #culture

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He is eloquent and persuasive…but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear him not… -Frankenstein💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #philosophy #reflections #theology

Storm clouds gathering over an open field.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is indeed a tale so strange that I should fear you would not credit it were there not something in truth which, however wonderful, forces conviction. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

-my labour considerably advanced-I looked towards its completion with a tremulous & eager hope,which I dared not trust myself to question-which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil- Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed & horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species & have the same defects. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #literature #art #culture #meme

“Life is stubborn… it clings most tenaciously where it is most hated.”

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To be a great & virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base & vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation.. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Devil..do you dare approach me? Begone, vile insect! Abhorred monster! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

…misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell, my sweet lady,..my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you, may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #literature #art #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery.. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #memes

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