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The cult of Apollo should not be viewed as merely a curious institution of that period. It was on the one side the key monetarist financial institution of that period. On the other side it deployed two cults as covers for its intelligence
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“Si nos detenemos en la reflexión poscrisis sobre el Estado podemos repetir aquello que lamentó Gandhi a mediados del siglo xx, quejándose del trato recibido: primero nos combatieron, luego nos censuraron, más tarde nos ignoraron y al final dijeron que lo que nosotros planteamos es lo que ellos habían sostenido desde el principio. El medio es el mensaje, y quien controla los canales de comunicación será quien ponga el marco discursivo, la matriz de opinión, en la opinión pública.”
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Es más fácil escribir una columna de periódico criticando los excesos neoliberales que cambiar los planes de estudios de las facultades de economía, grandes responsables de sembrar precisamente el delirio neoliberal (no hay noticia de cambios que modulen la hegemonía teórica neoliberal en ningún país del mundo).”
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.
Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.
But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.
But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
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