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“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ”
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“Beware the man of a single book.”
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“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.”
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
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“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”
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Philosophical Science Fiction
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— last activity Aug 14, 2013 10:21AM
A group to discuss science fiction novels that explore philosophical issues. This group is brand new so bear with me for a little while, I am open t ...more
Boulder Public Library
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— last activity Aug 12, 2011 02:53PM
Staff of the Boulder Public Library and any interested readers!
Existentialism
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more
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