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In a climate of fear, people worry about repression and so do not dare voice their opinions freely. Hate speech and shitstorms also create fear and thus hinder the free expression of opinions. We even fear thinking. We seem to have lost the ...more
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Vladimir Lenin
“even the most artful guardians of the present system cannot prevent the awakening of proletarian thought.”
V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

Maximus the Confessor
“in Ambiguum 42, where he describes the distinctive but connected origins of body and soul, and their synthesis in a single human species, and more importantly, the assumption by the New Adam of the first Adam’s soul-body constitution.40 In the incarnation, the Logos who created universal humanity fashioned his own manhood in a (prelapsarian) Adamic perfection; he himself modeled the perfect co-existence of intelligent soul and material body.”
Maximus the Confessor, On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ

Oliver Burkeman
“If you don’t ask large questions, you’re going to have a small life.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Northrop Frye
“There’s something in all of us that wants to drift toward a mob, where we can all say the same thing without having to think about it, because everybody is all alike except people that we can hate or persecute. Every time we use words, we’re either fighting against this tendency or giving in to it. When we fight against it, we’re taking the side of genuine and permanent human civilization.”
Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

Vladimir Lenin
“To regard the categories of the bourgeois system as eternal and natural is most typical of bourgeois philosophers.”
V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

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