Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
~ Rollo May
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Culture, when it loses its sacred sense, loses all sense. With the disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection which could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
~ H. L. Mencken
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A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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