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political power is precisely the official expression of antagonism in civil society

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At chess, sitting at the pear tree's shade
Your favoured tactic was to wear the opponent down
The enemy who drove you from your books
Will not be worn down by the likes of us.

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To be sure, justice and virtue were precisely what the sophists' education sought to inculcate too. But Socrates had uncovered the real content and dogma of their new ethos. For the sophists, justice is only the conventions of the weak which protect the interests of the latter. For the sophists, ethical principles are no longer valid in themselves but only as a form of our mutual "keeping an eye" on one another. The "just" is that by means of which one person can assert himself against another with help from everyone else and, as such, it is adhered to only out of mutual distrust and fear.

It is not the justice intrinsic and internal to me myself.

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I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

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MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;
My Emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.

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What good, after all, is being right unless it allows you to do wrong?

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Forwarded from Visigoth Aesthetics

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For this is an experience which is characteristic of a philosopher, this wondering: this is where philosophy begins and nowhere else. And the man who made Iris the child of Thaumas was perhaps no bad genealogist

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The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not much shame has to be overcome on the way to it.

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One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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Forwarded from Jonathan Bowden Unofficial Archive

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"If the Era of Empire is over, let the Era of Surrender not replace it..."

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Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.

The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.

I grant that.

Then, although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying dream which Zeus sends to Agamemnon

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Love takes even Sol prisoner, who rules all the stars with his light.

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Geometry with its bias toward measurement and space imposed restrictions on a concern with time.

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 The spread of a money economy strengthened an interest in numbers and arithmetic and in turn in mystery religions in conflict with the established Appollonic religion.

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[Wilhelm Bendz-1828]

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The beauty of aging wood and tightly thatched roofs was sacrificed to the fireproof banality of concrete

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Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.

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And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,
I love to see the look with which it braves,
Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,
The lightning, the fierce wind, the trampling waves.

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