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Book cover for The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
Fundamentally, you will be cured of two very serious kinds of intellectual blindness: Developmental blindness—meaning that you consistently fail to see the developmental stages of human beings, animals and societies. Inner dimensions ...more
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Stefan Zweig
“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged to begin again, victims and yet also the willing servants of unknown mysterious powers, we for whom comfort has become an old legend and security, a childish dream, have felt tension from pole to pole of our being, the terror of something always new in every fibre. Every hour of our years was linked to the fate of the world. In sorrow and in joy we have lived through time and history far beyond our own small lives, while they knew nothing beyond themselves. Every one of us, therefore, even the least of the human race, knows a thousand times more about reality today than the wisest of our forebears. But nothing was given to us freely; we paid the price in full.”
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Thomas Sowell
“What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.”
Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell
“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.”
Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell
“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.”
Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

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