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a wrongdoer found out could often be morally indignant, as if the discovery were the offense,
“Mysticism is a degenerate form of contact with the divine, whereas initiation is the fruit of long askesis of mind and heart. Mysticism is a democratic, if not demagogic, phenomenon; initiation is aristocratic.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“these days the right lumps everything together and sees it all as a demo-pluto-social-Judaic conspiracy. Mussolini did the same thing.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“You mean you’re comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?” “Yes.” Mrs Whatsit said. “You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“Manipulating the words of the Book, we attempted to construct a golem.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
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