5 Quotes by Philipp Blom

No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.

They could simply not accept that there might be no God, precisely because that would mean that life was not inherently meaningful. In their heart of hearts they were unwilling to confront the possibility that they themselves, the vast universe of every individual consciousness, could be as meaningless and as random as a leaf whirled into the air by a gust of wind. The.

The irony at the base of this situation is that the gospel of the free market is just as ideological as those of communism and fascism.

Nietzsche’s subtle, poetic, and entirely unsystemic attacks on academic style and thinking were predestined to be quoted out of context, and his pithy and often sarcastic observations could be put in the service of a wider assault on rationality itself.

Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.