“The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.”
― Farewell to Reason
― Farewell to Reason
“In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his “bad desires” as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.”
― L'Unique et sa proprlete
― L'Unique et sa proprlete
“Then the doctor, a young man, not quite a Nihilist perhaps, but you know, eats with his knife...but a very good doctor.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“There is no way of cutting ourselves free of our conceptual inheritance: all we are required to do is use our experience critically and discriminatingly, refining and improving our inherited ideas, and determining more exactly the limits to their scope.”
― Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
― Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
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