"If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you
Sworbreck had come to see the face of heroism and instead he had seen evil. Seen it, spoken with it, been pressed up against it. Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.
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These
are the desolate, dark weeks
when nature in its barrenness
equals the stupidity of man.
Very well then, they will continue, Nature is nothing, it is God who is all. Another stupidity! There are necessarily two things in the universe: the creative agent and the being created;
... the sort of thing that gives you the sweats at night and by daylight seems like stupidity.
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“Henüz hiçbir zaman talihin güzel elinden başımı döndürecek bir zevk yaşamadım. Devlet benim için bir soyutlamadır; gerçek olan bireydir ve onun kişiliği soylu ve yüce şeylerin yaratıcısıdır. Toplum bütünüyle düşüncesiz aptallığa, duygu körelmesine düşebilir; çoğunluk kendini aptalca feda edebilir. Düşünen ve hisseden bireydir. Bu konu beni insan
