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- Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion…
- Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and…
- And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it…
- To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of…
- What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of…
- [...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.
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