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“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ”
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“I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
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in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
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“We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.”
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“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
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“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”
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Philosophical Science Fiction
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A group to discuss science fiction novels that explore philosophical issues. This group is brand new so bear with me for a little while, I am open t ...more
Boulder Public Library
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— last activity Aug 12, 2011 02:53PM
Staff of the Boulder Public Library and any interested readers!
Existentialism
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more
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