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Quotes from The Rivers North of the Future — Ivan Illich

1926–2002 Austria

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The search for truth presupposes the growth of philia. This philia must find an atmosphere in which it can grow, and this atmosphere cannot be taken for granted as an out-growth of civic virtue.

The Rivers North of the Future (2005)

Christ came to free us from the law, but Christianity allowed the legal mentality to be brought into the very heart of love.

The Rivers North of the Future (2005)

In this new kind of world neither the vitality of nature nor the creative act of God makes things what they are. This birthright is withdrawn, and things come to be what they are because of their genetic code, as we would say today.

The Rivers North of the Future (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ivan Illich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.