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Ethics is one of the extreme forms of violence, because it is the administration of becoming, with a view to achieving the goals that are considered suitable for the full realisation of man.

— Emanuele Severino

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

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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?

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