UN LIVRE UTILE 24

27/01/04

« [Mill] In his famous essay he declares that unless men are left to live as they wish ‘in the path with merely concerns themselves’, acceleration cannot advance; the thuth will not, far(?) lack of free market of ideas, come to light; there will be no scope for spontaneity, originality, genius, for mental energy,, for moral courage. Society will be crushed by the weight of ‘collective mediocrity’ . Whatever is rich and diversified will be crushed by the weight of custom, by men’s constant tendancy to conformity, which breed only ‘withered capacities’,’pitched and hideband’, ‘cramped and warped », human beings. »

« He is truly free who desires what he can perform, and dose what he desires. » JJRousseau

« What I cannot be sure of, I cannot truly want. »

« Knowledge liberates, as Epicurus thought long ago, by automaticaly eliminating irrational fears and desires. »
All taken in « Two concepts of liberty » in Isaiah Berlin’s FOUR ESSAYS ON LIBERTY.

« You cannot hope to brake on Turist
Thank God! The English journalist :
But seeing what the men will do
Unbribled, there is no reason to. »
G.Orwell in « As I Please », Tribune, (Lander), 7 July, 1944, in Colected Essays, III, 180

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