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"The end of #labor is to gain #leisure. The aim of #education is the #wise use of leisure."

— #Aristotle, #Nicomachean #Ethics

Be #poor! The #pious man owns nothing in this life
Save what he’s loth to own: this #mortal #body’s #strife.

— #Alexandrines of Angelus #Silesius

All of modern #philosophy springs from of #Descartes’ #Meditations. Let us transform this historical proposition into a substantive one: Every genuine beginning of philosophy springs from meditation, from the experience of solitary self-reflection. When it is rooted in its origins, an #autonomous philosophy (and we live in the age when humanity has awakened to its autonomy) becomes the #solitary and #radical #self-responsibility of the one who is philosophizing. Only in solitude and meditation does one become a philosopher; only in this way is philosophy born in us, emerging of necessity from within us. What others and the #tradition accept as knowledge and scientific foundations is what I, as an autonomous ego, must pursue to its ultimate grounding, and I must do so exclusively in terms of my own sense of its #evidentness. This ultimate grounding must be immediately and apodictically evident. Only in this way can I be absolutely #responsible; only thus can I #justify matters absolutely. Therefore I must let no previous judgment, no matter how indisputable it may seem to be, go unquestioned and ungrounded.

— Edmund #Husserl, PHENOMENOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, June, 1931

#Communism - "an association in which the free development of each [individual] is the condition for the free development of all."

— #Marx & #Engels, Manifesto (1848)

"The #spirit and in fact only the spirit is a being in itself and for itself; it is #autonomous and is capable of being handled in a genuinely #rational, genuinely and thoroughly #scientific way only in this autonomy."

— Edmund #Husserl, Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man

All #punishment is mischief. All punishment of itself is evil.

— Jeremy #Bentham, Principles of #Morals and #Legislation —

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

— Albert #Einstein

"Never will I seek nor receive private, individual salvation; never will I enter into final peace alone; but forever, and everywhere, will I live and strive for the redemption of every creature throughout the world."

— Kwan-Yin

"Στην #αναρχία δε θα φτάσουμε ούτε σήμερα, ούτε αύριο, ούτε ποτέ. Στην αναρχία θα πορευόμαστε σήμερα, αύριο και για πάντα."

— Errico #Malatesta

"#Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."

— Friedrich #Engels & Karl #Marx - The German Ideology, 1845

Σήμερα η αναρχία είναι θυμός, θανάσιμο μίσος και αιώνιος πόλεμος ενάντια σε όλους τους καταπιεστές και τους εκμεταλλευτές που υπάρχουν πάνω στη γη• είναι η απαράγραπτη διεκδίκηση των καταπιεσμένων, είναι το σύμφωνο συμμαχίας τους, η πολεμική κραυγή τους˗ ανελέητος πόλεμος όσο στη γη θα υπάρχει ακόμα έστω και ένα αφεντικό, έστω και ένας εκμεταλλευτής. Αναρχία σημαίνει ακατάπαυστη, αδιάκοπη εξέγερση, ενάντια σε κάθε κατεστημένη τάξη• πόλεμος ενάντια σε κάθε κρατική αρχή, που διεξάγεται με όλους τους δυνατούς τρόπους και με όλες τις δυνατές μορφές: με το γραπτό λόγο και κάθε άλλο μέσο έκφρασης, με τις πράξεις περιφρόνησης και εχθρότητας και προπάντων με τα όπλα.

— Είναι από το κείμενο του Ιταλού αναρχοκομμουνιστή Κάρλο #Καφιέρο “Επανάσταση”, Αναρχία και Κομμουνισμός.