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Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas by Perry Anderson
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“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”
― Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

tags: accuracy, banality, falsity, ideas, intellectuals, morals, truth

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“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”
― Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

tags: consolation, politics, realism, resistance-movement, silver-linings, stoicism

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