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The avaricious man ... proclaims that money is the only good, and he yields it all his soul.

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There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

One sees the world's evil accurately only by exaggerating it.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

My anger is the effervescence of my pity.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

You are always on the right side when you are with those who suffer persecution and injustice.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of one's own will.

Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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