“I feel at home in the entire world, wherever
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts...”
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“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called a “deep-seated need to believe.” Considered purely as a rational philosophy, it has little to recommend it; but as an emotional sedative, what Czeslaw Milosz liked to call the opiate of unbelief, it offers a refuge from so many elaborate perplexities, so many arduous spiritual exertions, so many trying intellectual and moral problems, so many exhausting expressions of hope or fear, charity or remorse. In this sense, it should be classified as one of those religions of consolation whose purpose is not to engage the mind or will with the mysteries of being but merely to provide a palliative for existential grievances and private disappointments. Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.”
― The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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