“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
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“The existence of unknown truth is unknowable”
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“Hold fast, then, to this sound and wholesome rule of life - that you indulge the body only so far as is needful for good health. The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
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