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The concept of original sin gives us a penetrating insight into human destiny.
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I, then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues)...
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We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.
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The history of utopias is no less fascinating than the history of metallurgy or of chemical engineering.
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I do not know what postmodern is and how it differs from the premodern, nor do I feel that I ought to know.
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
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Marxism was a philosophical or semi-philosophical doctrine and a political ideology which was used by the communist state as the main source of legitimacy and the obligatory faith.
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It seems to us that the past is our property. Well, on the contrary — we are its property, because we are not able to make changes in it, while it fills the whole of our existence.
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Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
October 23, 1927
Died:
July 17, 2009
(aged 81)
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