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On the Incarnation
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Three Men in a Boat
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‘What is meditation? What is abandonment of the body? What is fasting? What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly ...more
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“It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending.”
qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

George Orwell
“These people always say (as Hitler says in Mein Kampf) that they started out with no anti-Jewish prejudice but were driven into their present position by mere observation of the facts. Yet one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”
George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

Patrick J. Deneen
“A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The state becomes charged with extending the sphere of commerce, particularly with enlarging the range of trade, production, and mobility. The expansion of markets and the infrastructure necessary for that expansion do not result from 'spontaneous order'; rather, they require an extensive and growing state structure, which at times must extract submission from the system's recalcitrant or unwilling participants.”
Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen
“Unlike the ancient Romans who, confident in their eternal city, could not imagine a condition after Rome, the rising barbarism within the city forces us now to consider the prospect that a better way awaits.”
Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

T.S. Eliot
“People can be persuaded to desire almost anything, for a time, if they are constantly told that it is something to which they are entitled and which is unjustly withheld from them.”
T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

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