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"Gerwarth makes an interesting case concerning the inter-war period but fails a little in giving things a suitable structure, let's see..." — Jan 30, 2018 04:06AM
"Gerwarth makes an interesting case concerning the inter-war period but fails a little in giving things a suitable structure, let's see..." — Jan 30, 2018 04:06AM


“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Versklavung kann man definieren als die Enteignung von Lebenszeit und Arbeitsleistung. Nichts anderes sind Steuern und Abgaben.”
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“Die Freiheit wird fast immer mit Sätzen erschlagen, die mit "ja, aber" beginnen.”
― Freiheitsfunken: Aphoristische Impfungen
― Freiheitsfunken: Aphoristische Impfungen

“Der Glaube der mittelalterlichen Alchemisten, aus Blei Gold machen zu können, war eine Manifestation der nüchternen Vernunft im Vergleich zu dem neuzeitlichen Wahn, aus Papier Geld machen zu können.”
― Freiheitsfunken: Aphoristische Impfungen
― Freiheitsfunken: Aphoristische Impfungen

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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more
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