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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
    ― Theodor Adorno
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno
    tags: humility, hypocrisy, self-awareness
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
    ― theodor w. adorno
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
    ― Theodor Adorno
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty,
    nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such
    awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “There is no right life in the wrong one.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno
    tags: civilization, critical-theory, cultural-criticism, culture, culture-critique, decline, decline-of-civilization, dialectic, dialectics, enlightenment, philosophy, society, the-dialectic-of-enlightenment, the-enlightenment, the-west, western-culture
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Thucydides
    “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: courage, discipline, self-control, self-respect
    559 likes

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    William Francis Butler
    “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
    ― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon
    tags: cowardice, fighting, renaissance-man, thinking, well-roundedness
    211 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1756 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
    739 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
    tags: love
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?

    How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: credulity, fables, superstition
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, lifelong-learning, philosophy, socrates
    343 likes

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  • #21
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: reason-education
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
    ― Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: gods, humor, madness, superstition
    324 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: adversary, ardor, argument, changed-mind, dispute, force, open-mind, pleasure, pride, reason, victory, weakness
    200 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: character-development
    169 likes

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  • #27
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “My art and profession is to live.”
    ― Montaigne
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  • #29
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, Essays
    tags: nature
    177 likes

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  • #30
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection
    tags: conversation, mind
    128 likes



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