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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…
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the…
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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…
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch…
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A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of…
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
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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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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it…
— George Leigh Mallory
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a…
— Georges Canguilhem
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It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.
— Ruth Harrison
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Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone…
— Robert Musil
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and…
— Immanuel Kant
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Lies are powerless without man but the truth is ever powerful even without man.
— Terry Mark
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The world began without man, and it will end without him.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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