"Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly."

-- Erica Jong

“I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.”
“Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.”
“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
“This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
“The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.”
“The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.274, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.”

Source : Shailer Mathews (1918). “Patriotism and Religion”
“The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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