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- True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies…
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of…
- A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
- Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own…
- It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's…
- It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
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