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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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 If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Dec 12,2023

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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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 If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Apr 12,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #self #awareness #humanity #needs #Simone Weil #desires #Gravity and Grace

He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole

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 He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole

Apr 02,2021

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At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather:

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 At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather:

Jan 09,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #humanity #Herbert Marcuse #needs #desires #An Essay on Liberation #exploitation #oppression

Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of

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 Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of

Dec 09,2020

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#quotes #Feelings #philosophy #Fear #emotions #isolation #politics #needs #Hannah Arendt #The New York Review of Books #totalitarianism #authoritarianism

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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 Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Nov 24,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #creativity #needs #Judith Butler #opportunity #Undoing Gender #possibility

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

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 There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

Oct 28,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #Theodor W. Adorno #morality #ethics #Minima Moralia #needs #demands