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The Indian non-Left is made up of a wide range of ideas and world-views: classical liberals, Right-of-Centre liberals, free-marketeers, mercantilists, libertarians, Kautilyan realists, cultural traditionalists, Savarkarite modernisers,
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“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life. And that is all that matters – your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow – that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.”
― Social Psychology
― Social Psychology
“When you act according to your principles you are being dishonest because when you act according to what you think you ought to be you are not what you are. It is a brutal thing to have ideals.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“You are waiting for me to describe what this silence is so that you can compare it, interpret it, carry it away and bury it. It cannot be described. What can be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to all the images you have made, to all your experiences – dying every day so that the brain cells themselves become fresh, young, innocent.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
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