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• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
• Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
• Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
• Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
• A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
• Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
• Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
• Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
• The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
• Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…

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