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Poetry, whose material is lang...

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

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The will to power, as the mode...

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

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It is rather hard and certainl...

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

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Man's chief moral deficiency a...

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

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The practice of violence, like...

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

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Although tyranny...may success...

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

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When we were told that by free...

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

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The human condition is such th...

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

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Opinions are formed in a proce...

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

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Only the hypocrite is really r...

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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Luck serves ... as rationaliza...

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

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It is indeed my opinion now th...

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 'radical,Ђќ that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is 'thought-defying,Ђќ as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its 'banality.Ђќ Only the good has depth and can be radical.

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Mathematics, the non-empirical...

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

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With the rise of Christianity,...

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

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Jefferson, though the secret v...

Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as c

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Our problem today is not how t...

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

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The aim of totalitarian educat...

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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in addition to the conditions ...

in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is dra

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Power is actualized only when ...

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

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As citizens, we must prevent w...

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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