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- To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all…
- What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
- The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them…
- All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
- If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even…
- Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
- We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others…
- The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.…
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- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray