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there was something new happening, a wheel inside my heart I’d never noticed before, and it was spinning so fast it made me dizzy.
“justice must have an improvisational character if it is not to fall back into the sort of legal structure that, in spite of its intentions, can only result in the perpetuation of injustice.”
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“Once I could no longer find a way to theologically maintain God and hold onto the significance of my historical moment, letting go of God was natural.”
― Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
― Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
“philosophy is no longer concerned with the quest for the truth of the world and so is reduced to a limited sphere, which only ensures the uninterrupted flow of capitalist markets. Truth as a philosophical category thus becomes enslaved to the unthinking markets of capitalism; philosophy at the service of the robber barons. Truth's instantiation is thus brutally reduced to the exercise of pure and arbitrary power in various domains of the world.”
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“The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its “Age of Reason” and its “Fall.” The”
― Mythos and Cosmos: Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age
― Mythos and Cosmos: Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age
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