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Pride is a quality of those who are powerless. It is from God's point of view that Lucifer sins with pride. But God's victory over Lucifer is an illusion of God.

— Emanuele Severino

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If we already take for granted what madness is, philosophy becomes completely superfluous.

Since the USSR no longer controls the grassroots movements against global wealth and Islam has taken their place, the survival of the rich world is in danger.

Taking refuge in nature is to shut oneself up within the walls of violence.

Every civilisation, especially the Western one, has been nothing but edifying – even and especially when it has produced the extreme of destruction and horror. Can man ever fail to be edifying?

Adam would have been victorious over his own sin only if he had eaten the forbidden fruit.

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