Gianni Vattimo quotes
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“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”
-- Gianni VattimoSource : Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press
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“It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist”
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“I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.”
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“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”
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“Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.”
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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“I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.”
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“I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.”
Source : Interview with Erik Davis, www.fandango.com. July 12, 2012.
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“Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.”
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