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Education refers to no particular process; rather it encapsulates criteria to which any one of a family of processes must conform."

— R. W. K. Paterson Values, education and the adult (1979)

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The refusal to make the truth of nihilism one’s own and build one’s life entirely within its shadow is indeed a refusal of existentialism itself.

The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner (1971)

We want to know not merely what men have been, even the best men of their day, but what men can and ought to be.

The New Patricians (1998)

The version of reality a man adopts will depend largely on his values.

The New Patricians (1998)

They are supposed to be mature, and it is on this necessary supposition that their adulthood justifiably rests.

Values, education and the adult (1979)

Success necessarily emasculates the spirit of rebellion. From the point of view of the true rebel the noblest cause is a lost cause.

The New Patricians (1998)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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