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“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”
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“Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded. Such a man was Zola!”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.”
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“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling.”
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
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