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    Walker Percy
    “Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”
    ― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins
    tags: infidelity, men, women
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    Walker Percy
    “Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
    ― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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    Paul Ricœur
    “The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”
    ― Paul Ricoeur
    tags: philosophy
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    Ernst Bloch
    “Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.”
    ― Ernst Bloch
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    Ernst Bloch
    “Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”
    ― Ernst Bloch
    tags: born-again, christianity, fundementalism, marx, religion
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    “The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.”
    ― Mario Savio
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: diary-entry
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    David Hume
    “Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”
    ― David Hume, The Letters of David Hume
    tags: belief, enquiry, evidence, fairy-tales, nonsense, rationality, reason, scepticism, skepticism, superstition
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    William H. Gass
    “Alas, the penis is such a ridiculous petitioner. It is so unreliable, though everything depends on it—the world is balanced on it like a ball on a seal's nose. It is so easily teased, insulted, betrayed, abandoned; yet it must pretend to be invulnerable, a weapon which confers magical powers upon its possessor; consequently this muscleless inchworm must try to swagger through temples and pull apart thighs like the hairiest Samson, the mightiest ram.”
    ― William Gass
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau.

    European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
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    Carson McCullers
    “It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
    ― Friedrich August von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
    tags: coercion, equality, exclusivity, liberty, marginalized-people, oppression, privilege
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.”
    ― F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
    ― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice
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    Bruce Duffy
    “Odd how the impossible negation of death — the sudden absence of life where once there was promise — can stimulate an early philosophical bent.”
    ― Bruce Duffy, The World as I Found It
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    Joseph E. Stiglitz
    “Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.”
    ― Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
    tags: development
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
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    Henri Bergson
    “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
    ― Henri Bergson
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    Henri Bergson
    “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
    ― Henri Bergson
    tags: henry-bergson, philosophy
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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    “I am the place in which something has occurred.”
    ― Claude Lévi-Strauss
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
    ― Claude Levi-Strauss
    tags: questions, science
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
    tags: philosophy
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    Henry Chadwick
    “Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.”
    ― Henry Chadwick
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    Richard A. Posner
    “Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.”
    ― Richard A. Posner
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    Robert D. Kaplan
    “There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.”
    ― Robert D. Kaplan, Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese
    tags: inspirational
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    René Descartes
    “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
    ― Rene Descartes
    tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science
    413 likes



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