Ivan Illich

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- Author, polymath, polemicist and anarchist, Roman Catholic priest and critic September 04 , 1926 - December 02 , 2002 Amazon Top 10 Quotes by Ivan Illich Read full biography

As a scholar I have been shaped by a monastic traditions and by the interpretation of medieval texts. Early on I took it for granted that the principal condition for an atmosphere that is propitious...

Ivan Illich

The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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Community in our European tradition is not the outcome of an act of authoritative foundation, nor a gift from nature or its gods, nor the result of management, planning and design, but the...

Ivan Illich

The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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The other eminent moment of the celebration was, of course, the comestio, the communion in the flesh, the incorporation of the believer in the body of the Incarnate Word, but communio was...

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The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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The Latin osculum is neither very old nor frequent. It is one of three words that can be translated by the English, "kiss." In comparison with the affectionate basium and the lascivious suavium,...

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The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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Speaking about pax in the proto-Christan epoch turned out to be a delicate matter, because around the year 300 pax became a key word in the Christian liturgy. It became the euphemism for a...

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The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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The impending loss of spirit, of soul, of what I call atmosphere, could go unnoticed. Only persons who face one another in trust can allow its emergence. The bouquet of friendship varies with each...

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The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the...

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The Cultivation of Conspiracy - 1998 - "The Cultivation of Conspiracy" - expansion of an address delivered in Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Bremen Culture and Peace Prize - 14 March 1998


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