I mourn when brilliant writers like Andre Gide in his early works,1 and some unfaithful followers of Freud, tell us that we should yield to every impulse and desire, and “be ourselves”! What jejune nonsense! Civilization, as Freud
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“Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds.”
― Thinking Politically: Liberalism in the Age of Ideology
― Thinking Politically: Liberalism in the Age of Ideology
“All men are liars, inconstant, hollow, talkative, hypocrites, proud and cowards, contemptible and sensual; all woman are perfidious, artificial, vain, curious and depraved; the world is nothing but a bottomless sewer where the most shapeless seals crawl and wriggle on mountains of muck; but there one single thing in this world, saint and sublime, it’s the union of these two beings so imperfect and dreadful. We are often deceived in love, often wounded and often miserable; but we love, and when we are on of the verge of the grave, we look back, and we say: I often suffered, I erred sometimes: but I loved. It is me who lived and not a factitious being created by my pride and my boredom.”
― On ne badine pas avec l'amour
― On ne badine pas avec l'amour
“The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.”
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“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
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“The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one’s own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.”
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
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