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“A library is not a sign of accomplishment. It is a sign of desire.”
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“The function of philosophy is to corrupt the youth, to alienate (or, rather, 'extraneate' in the sense of Brecht's verfremden) them from the predominant ideologico-political order, to sow radical doubts and enable them to think autonomously.”
― Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
― Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
“We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self.”
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“To which end we are to consider, that the Felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
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