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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 2 weeks ago
It would be an endless task...

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 weeks 5 days ago
If there may be doubts for...

If there may be doubts for men and for a childless woman as to the way to, fulfil the will of God, for a mother that path is firmly and clearly defined, and if she fulfils it humbly with a simple heart she stands on the highest point of perfection a human being can attain, and becomes for all a model of that complete performance of God's will which all desire. Only a mother can before her death tranquilly say to Him who sent her into this world, and Whom she has served by bearing and bringing up children whom she has loved more than herself - only she having served Him in the way appointed to her can say with tranquillity, Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace. And that is the highest perfection to which, as to the highest good, men aspire.

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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz
2 months 3 weeks ago
Although the whole of this life...

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

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As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) by J. R. Newman, p. 1832
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month 2 weeks ago
I don't need any support, advice,...

I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4 weeks 1 day ago
Here take back the stuff that...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

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B 37 "Speech of a suicide composed shortly before the act."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 month 2 weeks ago
To be in love is not...

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

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Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
2 days ago
Right and wrong are the same...

Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.

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Foreword to The Transformation of Palestine
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 2 weeks ago
The good is the idea, or...

The good is the idea, or unity of the conception of the will with the particular will. Abstract right, well-being, the subjectivity of consciousness, and the contingency of external reality, are in their independent and separate existences superseded in this unity, although in their real essence they are contained in it and preserved. This unity is realized freedom, the absolute final cause of the world. Addition.-Every stage is properly the idea, but the earlier steps contain the idea only in more abstract form. The I, as person, is already the idea, although in its most abstract guise. The good is the idea more completely determined; it is the unity of the conception of will with the particular will. It is not something abstractly right, but has a real content, whose substance constitutes both right and well-being.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right translated by SW Dyde Queen's University Canada 1896 p. 123
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 3 weeks ago
In every province, the chief occupations,...

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 2 weeks ago
These numerous points at which money...

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

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Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 497.
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 days ago
In a book called Symbolism, Its...

In a book called Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect, Whitehead points out that perception is usually a matter of symbols, just like language; I say I see a book when I actually see a red oblong. The Transactionists (who have been influenced by Whitehead rather than Husserl) take this one stage further, and point out that when I 'perceive' something, I am actually making a bet with myself that what I perceive is what I think it is. In order to act and live at all, I have to make these bets; I cannot afford to make absolutely certain that things are what I think they are. But this means that we should not take our perceptions at face value, any more than Nietzsche was willing to take philosophy at its face value; we must allow for prejudice and distortion.

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p. 66
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 2 weeks ago
As there is a use in...

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Power
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
1 month 1 week ago
Even the most…..

Even the most elevated psychological understanding is not a loving understanding.

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 3 weeks ago
The necessaries of life occasion the...

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Chapter II, Part II, Article I, p. 911.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is easy to see that,...

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.

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Book Three, Chapter IX.
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 weeks ago
What seem our worst prayers may...

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
1 month 5 days ago
I do not think discursively. It...

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

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Introduction
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
3 weeks 2 days ago
Truth is ever to be found...

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 5 days ago
The miser deprives himself of his...

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

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p. 260
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 weeks 1 day ago
But the more he is alone...

But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.

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Toils And Pleasures.
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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 1 week ago
The journey of a thousand miles...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
2 weeks 3 days ago
If a work of art is...

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

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To Wilfred Watson, October 6 1965. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 325
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 3 weeks ago
Happiest are the people who give...

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

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As quoted in Happyology by Harald W. Tietze, p. 28
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2 months 3 weeks ago
A penny saved is of more...

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

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What Luther Says, Section on "Life, Human," No. 2438. Rules for a Thrifty Life. 2, p. 784
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
2 months 3 weeks ago
The trade of insurance gives great...

The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society.

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Chapter I, Part III, p. 821.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 3 weeks ago
It is a serious question…

It is a serious question among them whether they [Africans] are descended from monkeys or whether the monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man was created in the image of God. Now here is a lovely image of the Divine Maker: a flat and black nose with little or hardly any intelligence. A time will doubtless come when these animals will know how to cultivate the land well, beautify their houses and gardens, and know the paths of the stars: one needs time for everything.

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Les Lettres d'Amabed (1769): Septième Lettre d'Amabed
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 week ago
Have ye not read, that he...

Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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19:4-6 (KJV)
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
2 months 2 weeks ago
Conformity to nature has no connection...

Conformity to nature has no connection whatever with right and wrong. The idea can never be fitly introduced into ethical discussions at all, except, occasionally and partially, into the question of degrees of culpability. To illustrate this point, let us consider the phrase by which the greatest intensity of condemnatory feeling is conveyed in connection with the idea of nature - the word "unnatural." That a thing is unnatural, in any precise meaning which can be attached to the word, is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

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page 62; Broadview Press, page 102
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
For man to become successful, for...

For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
3 weeks 6 days ago
Even if we consider not words...

Even if we consider not words by themselves but rules deciding what words may appropriately be produced in certain contexts - even if we consider, in computer jargon, programs for using words - unless those programs themselves refer to something extra-linguistic there is still no determinate reference that those words possess. This will be a crucial step in the process of reaching the conclusion that the Brain-in-a-Vat Worlders cannot refer to anything external at all (and hence cannot say that they are Brain-in-a-Vat Worlders).

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Chap. 1 : Brains in a vat
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 2 weeks ago
To execute laws is a royal...

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

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Volume iii, p. 497
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 weeks ago
Nicias, do you think you can...

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

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King Aegistheus, Act 2
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 1 week ago
Verily, verily, I say unto you,...

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

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6:53-56
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William Godwin
William Godwin
1 month 2 weeks ago
To conceive that compulsion and punishment...

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation, is the sentiment of a barbarian; civilisation and science are calculated to explode so ferocious an idea. It was once universally admitted and approved; it is now necessarily upon the decline.

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Vol. 2, bk. 7, ch. 5
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William James
William James
2 months 2 weeks ago
Out of my experience, such as...

Out of my experience, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea or reservoir.

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"Confidences of a 'Psychical Researcher'", in The American Magazine, Vol. 68 (1909), p. 589
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
2 months 2 weeks ago
The most thought provoking…

The most thought provoking thing in our thought provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

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What is Called Thinking? (1951-1952), as translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray
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John Searle
John Searle
3 weeks 1 day ago
Precisely by inculcating a critical attitude,...

Precisely by inculcating a critical attitude, the "canon" served to demythologize the conventional pieties of the American bourgeoisie and provided the student with a perspective from which to critically analyze American culture and institutions. Ironically, the same tradition is now regarded as oppressive. The texts once served an unmasking function; now we are told that it is the texts which must be unmasked.

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"The Storm Over the University", The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
2 months 2 weeks ago
The painter is turning his eyes...

The painter is turning his eyes towards us only in so far as we happen to occupy the same position as his subject. We, the spectators, are an additional factor. Though greeted by that gaze, we are also dismissed by it, replaced by that which was always there before we were: the model itself. But, inversely, the painter's gaze, addressed to the void confronting him outside the picture, accepts as many models as there are spectators; in this precise but neutral place, the observer and the observed take part in a ceaseless exchange.

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Las Menias
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 2 weeks ago
In the "fulfillment" of both the...

In the "fulfillment" of both the laws and duty, ... the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
1 month 2 weeks ago
It makes unavoidably necessary an entirely...

It makes unavoidably necessary an entirely new organization of society in which production is no longer directed by mutually competing individual industrialists but rather by the whole society operating according to a definite plan and taking account of the needs of all.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 2 weeks ago
Whatever happens, I cannot be a...

Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it...

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Quoted in The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol. I (1970), p. 294, said by Russell "in the spring of 1967"
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 days ago
Is the child to be considered...

Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be the most important question to be answered by parents and educators. And whether the child is to grow from within, whether all that craves expression will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day; or whether it is to be kneaded like dough through external forces, depends upon the proper answer to this vital question.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 weeks ago
"Everything is both a trap and...

"Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it."

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
2 months 2 weeks ago
I have nothing but contempt for...

I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

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Act 6, sc. 6
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 days ago
What is generally regarded as success...

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point. I have always striven to remain in a state of flux and continued growth, and not to petrify in a niche of self-satisfaction. If I had my life to live over again, like anyone else, I should wish to alter minor details. But in any of my more important actions and attitudes I would repeat my life as I have lived it. Certainly I should work for Anarchism with the same devotion and confidence in its ultimate triumph.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 2 weeks ago
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal....

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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Unverified attribution noted in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, p. 39;
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
1 week 5 days ago
Take our politicians: they're a bunch...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

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As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1987) by Jon Winokur, p. 219
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
3 months 2 weeks ago
Scientists have pushed back the horizon...

Scientists have pushed back the horizon of time from the biblical 6,000 years to 4,600,000,000 years for the age of Earth a 760,000-fold increase.

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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
3 weeks ago
I am convinced...
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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
6 months 3 weeks ago
A fantasy construction

Ideology is not a dreamlike illusion that we build to escape insupportable; in its basic dimension, it is a fantasy-construction which serves as a support for our reality itself; an illusion which structures our effective, real social relations and thereby masks some insupportable, real, impossible kernel.

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