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Book cover for Le Manifeste des Plébéiens (La Petite Collection) (French Edition)
Nous avons posé33 que l’égalité parfaite est de droit primitif ; que le pacte social, loin de porter atteinte à ce droit naturel, ne doit que donner à chaque individu la garantie que ce droit ne sera jamais violé,
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Parmenides
“Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief”
Parmenides, Parmenides of Elea: Fragments

Emil M. Cioran
“Excess of deliberation frustrates all actions. To expatiate upon sexuality is to sabotage it altogether. Eroticism, scourge of deliquescent societies, is an offense against instinct, an organized impotence. We do not reflect with impunity upon exploits that dispense with reflection. Orgasm has never been a philosophical event.”
Emil M. Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger
“When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered
technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes
accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously "experience" an assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all
Being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of a
people; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph;
then, yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the
question: what for? — where to? — and what then?”
Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

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