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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be…
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…
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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a…
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…
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Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free…
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy…
— Francis Crick
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
— Jeremy Bentham
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For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you…
— Georges Bernanos
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Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.
— Yusuke Kishi
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To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
— Gautama Buddha
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of…
— Errico Malatesta
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There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
— Francis Schaeffer
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What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a…
— Keith Devlin
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