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“The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
― Michel Foucault

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust

“Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o.
Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea.
Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi, De ce fierbe copilul în mămăligă

“Oamenii cauta fericirea cum cauta sangele inima.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
― Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You misunderstood me." But if you try to figure out the correct interpretation, then that’s not so easy. I once said this to Michel Foucault, who was more hostile to Derrida even than I am, and Foucault said that Derrida practiced the method of obscurantisme terroriste (terrorism of obscurantism). We were speaking French. And I said, "What the hell do you mean by that?" And he said, "He writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, 'You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.' That’s the terrorism part." And I like that. So I wrote an article about Derrida. I asked Michel if it was OK if I quoted that passage, and he said yes.”
― John R. Searle

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.”
― william s. burroughs

“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
― William S. Burroughs

“I beg you to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the feeling about what happened through the Mystery of Golgotha, in which his actual sacrifice consisted: namely in leaving the spiritual spheres in order to live with the earth and the human beings on the earth and to consolidate the impulse he gave for further human evolution on earth.”
― Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel: From the Akashic Record

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms

“To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.”
― Oran Kangas

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell