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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought…
— Aldous Huxley
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be…
— Courtney Love
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In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
— Steven Pressfield
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Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific…
— Renzo Novatore
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Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human…
— John Ralston Saul
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Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements…
— Peter De Vries
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing…
— Isadora Duncan
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