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«Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.»
«The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws»
«The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'»
«We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Essayist,
Theologian,
Writer)
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The Foundations,
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tolls
«This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.»
«Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time'.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
Bankers,
civilization,
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engines,
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magicians,
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poet,
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sea,
sea change,
teachers,
The Lighthouse,
The Magician,
The Sea,
treasures,
windows
«There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.»