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- All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex…
- A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness,…
- Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics…
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the…
- I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
- All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is…
- In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
- After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
- Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt