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“True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.”

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Slavoj Žižek

A Slovenian philosopher and an influential figure in contemporary Western philosophy. Born on March 21, 1949, Slavoj Žižek is known for his unique Marxist perspective and profound analysis of culture, politics, and film. more

“Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.”

Way States Doubt Dangerous Figures Projects Hatred Logic Jew Israel Target Zionist Zionism

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.”

Ideas Self Passion Belief Atheism Self Esteem Filled Dear Positive Atheism Esteem Threatened Companionship Propose Formation

Book:The Mind in Making

Source: The Mind in Making

“Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.”

Feels Self Groups Atheism Errors Positive Atheism Accused

Book:The Mind in the Making

Source: The Mind in the Making

“We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.”

Believe Has Beens Results Accepting Doubt Findings Argument Casts Excuse Assumption Reasoning Resentment Accustomed Clinging

Book:The Mind in the Making

Source: The Mind in the Making

“Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.”

“In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.”

Suffering Seeds Wounds Immortal Sovereign

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”

Long Hard Truth Mistake Wise Words Authority Making Mistakes Mistaken

Book:The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace

Source: The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace

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