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"“Thus the social power becomes the private power of private persons. Ancient society therefore denounced [money] as tending to destroy the economic and moral order. Modern society, which already in its infancy had pulled Pluto by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of its innermost principle of life.” Go off, Marx" — Jun 06, 2026 10:29AM
"“Thus the social power becomes the private power of private persons. Ancient society therefore denounced [money] as tending to destroy the economic and moral order. Modern society, which already in its infancy had pulled Pluto by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of its innermost principle of life.” Go off, Marx" — Jun 06, 2026 10:29AM
“Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.”
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“How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves; We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”
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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Pragmatism is but an experience, and idealism is but a dream. If we live solely by the force of experience, we fall captive to our limita-tions, and if we live solely by the force of dreams we fall captive to delusion.”
― The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books
― The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books
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