"The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk."

-- Norio Ohga

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“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”
“I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.”
“Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.”
“Every path serves a purpose.”
“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.”
“Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.”
“Nice guys finish last.”
“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”

Source : "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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