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• You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't…
• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…
• The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the…
• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has…
• Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…
• If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
• A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
• True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
• It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch…
• A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of…
• One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content…

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