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I found the introduction engaging, but what followed was rather dull and not particularly informative. Of course, that is not Plato's fault any more than it is Shakespeare's or Tolkien's if one finds their works unimpressive. Nevertheless, I could no
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“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
― Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
― Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.”
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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