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“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
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“When God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place. Like the Christian ecclesia, the inner-worldly community has its apocalypse too; yet the new apocalyptics insist that the symbols they create are scientific judgements.”
― Modernity without Restraint: Political Religions; The New Science of Politics; and Science, Politics and Gnosticism
― Modernity without Restraint: Political Religions; The New Science of Politics; and Science, Politics and Gnosticism
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.”
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“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.”
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“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion—the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought—for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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