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Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement among princely and mercantile art patrons and their masterly suppliers (who established a first 'art system'), into a national, a European, indeed a planetary matter. In order to spread from the few to the many, the renaissance had to discard its humanistic exterior and reveal itself as the return of ancient mass culture. The true renaissance question, reformulated in the terminology of practical philosophy - namely, whether other forms of life are possible and permissible for us alongside and after Christianity, especially ones whose patterns are derived from Greek and Roman (perhaps even Egyptian or Indian) antiquity - was no longer a secret discourse or an academic exercise in the nineteenth century, but rather an epochal passion, an inescapable pro nobis.

Peter Sloterdijk
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I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation it establishes between the individual and society. Moreover, I am certain that Anarchism is too vital and too close to human nature ever to die. It is my conviction that dictatorship, whether to the right or to the left, can never work--that it never has worked, and that time will prove this again, as it has been proved before. When the failure of modern dictatorship and authoritarian philosophies becomes more apparent and the realization of failure more general, Anarchism will be vindicated. Considered from this point, a recrudescence of Anarchist ideas in the near future is very probable. When this occurs and takes effect, I believe that humanity will at last leave the maze in which it is now lost and will start on the path to sane living and regeneration through freedom.

Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks
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Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.

William Powers, Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
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Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach from it, and look at something else.Once he has found something to interest himself in, he cannot detach himself from it efficiently, and therefore he cannot be objective. Note that, in most if not all languages, we have words like 'objectivity' which leads people to imagine that they have it, or can easily use it. That is equivalent (in reality if not in theory) to saying 'I know the word “gold”, so I am rich.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
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