“There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.”
― Mein Kampf - My Struggle: Unabridged edition of Hitlers original book - Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice
― Mein Kampf - My Struggle: Unabridged edition of Hitlers original book - Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice
“.. the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes...”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
“The existence of unknown truth is unknowable”
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“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical; both of their ideals are qualitatively identical, including the premises connected to a world the centre of which is constituted of technology, science, production, "productivity," and "consumption." And as long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, and that, generally speaking, human progress is measured by the degree of wealth or indigence—then we are not even close to what is essential...”
― Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
― Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
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