28 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Every child that is coming into being rests, like all that is coming into being, in the womb of the great mother, the undivided primal world that precedes form”.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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23 Saturday Jan 2016
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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.
Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik
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03 Sunday Jan 2016
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“What is to take the place of the soul- and life-destroying metaphysics inherited from the nineteenth century? The task of our generation, I have no doubt, is one of metaphysical reconstruction”.
E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
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31 Thursday Dec 2015
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“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him”.
C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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11 Friday Dec 2015
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“Anarchism’s lone objective is to end the fight of men against men and to unite humanity so that each individual can unfold his natural potential without obstruction”.
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
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09 Wednesday Dec 2015
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“I’ve never had much patience for those – and there are a lot of them – who consider humans to be the ‘apex’ of evolution, who evidently believe that all of evolution took place so that we can watch television”.
Derrick Jensen, Dreams
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07 Monday Dec 2015
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“Modifying the mental outlook of a people is the one and only means of bringing about any deep or lasting change”.
René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
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01 Tuesday Dec 2015
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“For the Outsider, the world into which he has been born is always a world without values. Compared to his own appetite for a purpose and a direction, the way most men live is not living at all; it is drifting. This is the Outsider’s wretchedness, for all men have a herd instinct that leads them to believe that what the majority does must be right. Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his own higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus, for he will always be an outcast and a misfit”.
Colin Wilson, The Outsider
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29 Sunday Nov 2015
“The idea that we cannot have complete unrestricted freedom is based on the assumption that human beings cannot be trusted with that. The idea that we cannot be trusted is based on the assumption that there is no such thing as an innate tendency to goodness and co-operation. The idea that there is no innate tendency to goodness is based on the assumption that goodness is an artificial construct devoid of any practical content, rather than an inherent aspect of humanity’s ability to survive. The idea that this innate goodness has nothing to do with survival is based on the assumption that humanity is merely a collection of individuals, with their own personal survival as a priority, rather than a social organism with collective survival as its aim”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
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25 Wednesday Nov 2015
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“The merchants or capitalists are the natural masters and rulers of the Gesellschaft. The Gesellschaft exists for their sake. It is their tool”.
Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Society
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