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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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“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)
“No honres nunca como tu conveniencia lo que te fuerce en alguna ocasión a infringir la confianza de la que gozas, a dejar a un lado la vergüenza, odiar a alguien, sospechar, maldecir, aparentar, anhelar algo que precisa de muros y cortinajes[217]. Quien escoge su propia inteligencia, el espíritu divino y los ritos propios de su virtud no hace una elección trágica, no se lamenta, no precisará ni de soledad ni de muchedumbre. Y lo más importante, vivirá sin perseguir ni huir. Si hace uso de su alma, encerrada en su cuerpo, durante mayor o menor intervalo de tiempo no le importa nada en absoluto. Porque aunque tenga ya que separarse se alejará tan liberado como si ejecutara alguna otra de las acciones que pueden ejecutarse con decencia y orden, con esta única preocupación durante toda su vida, que su reflexión se ocupe en algo impropio de un animal inteligente y social.”
― Meditaciones
― Meditaciones
“Si llevas a cabo la tarea presente de acuerdo con la razón recta, con diligencia, con fuerza, con buen ánimo y no te desvías en nada accesorio sino que vigilas que tu espíritu divino permanezca puro como si ya hubiera que devolverlo, si te agarras a eso sin esperar ni evitar nada, sino que te conformas en tu actuación presente a la naturaleza y en lo que dices y declaras a la verdad romana, tendrás una buena vida. Nadie hay que pueda impedírtelo.”
― Meditaciones
― Meditaciones
“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
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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