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Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 1, Section 13
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
“"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.”
Max Weber book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 2 : The "Spirit" of Capitalism
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"If Only This Could Be Said" To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czesŀaw Miŀosz (2001) edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine <!-- publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux -->
Context: Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.
“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
address " What is Science? http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320