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In order to arrive at a true understanding of what is, and is eternally, one must first necessarily begin with and proceed from a correct understanding of the overall nature of our time as apprehended in thought.

— Costanzo Preve

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The modern scientific concept of Matter first emerged between the 17th and 18th centuries, and therefore has no continuity or homogeneity with Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.

The union of clean-shaven supporters of biological racism with bearded supporters of the dictatorship of the proletariat would certainly make for a good hard-core porn script, but it would never make it out of the small red-light circuit of the political underworld.

The most dangerous and unacceptable form of atheism is not to claim that God does not exist, but to believe oneself to be God. The atheism of Stalin or Mao is child's play compared to the atheism of Bush or Bin Laden, who have installed themselves as gods and speak in his name.

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