Gianni Vattimo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.
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It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist
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I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.
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Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.
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Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
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If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
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I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
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Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.
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One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
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Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.
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