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- Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a…
- When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
- I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have…
- The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.
- A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the…
- But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood.…
- If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at?…
- There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was…
- Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
- Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone…
- I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes