“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
― The Grand Inquisitor
― The Grand Inquisitor
“The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it”
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“One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape”
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