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“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“When, in the works of Lacan, Deleuze and Althusser, the nonsense machine began to crank out its impenetrable sentences, of which nothing could be understood except that they all had “capitalism” as their target, it looked as though Nothing had at last found its voice.”
― Roger Scruton, Thinkers of the New Left

“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.”
― Charles Baudouin

“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
― Robert Musil

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
― Holderlin