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"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"


"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."


"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."


"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."


"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."


"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."
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