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“Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you.”
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
“Ulpian, a jurist (d. ca. 229 CE), explained the basic principles of Roman law this way: “The rules of law are to live honestly, to harm no person, and to give to each his due.”
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
― A History of the Middle Ages, 300–1500
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
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“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
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“clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg”
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
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