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Layne Robbs
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Through a series of such disciplines—mental, emotional, and moral, principally using memory and imagination—he exercised his small, embryonic freedom until it grew larger and larger, until he had more freedom than his Nazi captors. They had
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“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
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“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
― Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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“No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress.”
― Revolt Against the Modern World
― Revolt Against the Modern World
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
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