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David Claessen
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“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
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“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
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