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“A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.”

Book:Meaning

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Meaning

This book delves into philosophical and existential inquiries regarding the nature of meaning, examining various perspectives and theories on the purpose and significance of life. more

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Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi, an economic consultant, was born on March 11, 1891, in Hungary and passed away on February 22, 1976, in the United States. He had a profound impact on the field of economics, particularly in the areas of knowledge management and innovation theory. more

“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.”

Stills Self Character Transcendence Indulgence Self Indulgence

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.”

Long Stills Strong Sound Heard Hatred Ears Contempt Filthy Dreary Repetitive Orcs

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.”

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