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“it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Le bourgeois aime l'ordre qui lui permet de poursuivre ses affaires en toute sérénité. Son cœur bat dans son portefeuille, et à ce dernier il sacrifie sans remords tout sentiment social plus profond. Avec la révoltante avidité du parvenu, il essaie de se rendre maître de tout ce qui l'entoure et de l'abaisser à son niveau ; intellectuellement limité, plébéien et lourdeau dans ses manières, tout en rondeur et content de lui, c'est un véritable Philistin ; mais il est prêt à toutes les vilenies s'il croit ses biens menacés.”
― NATIONALISME ET CULTURE
― NATIONALISME ET CULTURE
“Gödel’s incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.”
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
“The enemy was a tangible thing, a propagandist’s monster whom you could understand, whom you could hate.”
― The Forever War
― The Forever War
“The mental state that occurs during orgasm has been described as an "altered state of consciousness" that may lead to a state of tranquility and deep unconsciousness, to which the French have attributed the name "le petit mort", the little death.”
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