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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“The road up and the road down is one and the same.
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή)
—Fragment 60”
― Fragments
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή)
—Fragment 60”
― Fragments
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.”
― The Critique of Pure Reason
― The Critique of Pure Reason
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
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“Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness...we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.”
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