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Letter "D" » degenerating
«Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.»
«Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.»
«In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.»
Author: Simone Weil
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Activist,
Mystic,
Philosopher)
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The Church
«TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.»
«Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.»
«Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.»
«Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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«Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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«Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.»
«Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.»