Quote by Vaclav Havel
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. – Vaclav Havel

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. – Michel De Certeau

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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The multitude is always wrong. – Proverb

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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. – Epicurus

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. – Aristotle

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Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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