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«What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'»
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
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About:
Belief,
Life,
Loneliness,
Principles
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Keywords:
conviction,
curious,
human existence,
inevitable,
peculiar,
phenomenon,
rests,
solitary,
The central
«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
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Philosopher,
Political scientist)
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Keywords:
apparatus,
assign,
assigning,
assigns,
coercion,
dominating,
external,
ideology,
machinery,
namely,
peculiar,
role,
rule by,
terrorize,
terrorizing,
thanks,
totalitarianism
«Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.»
«The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum»
«What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.»