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• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong…
• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is…
• Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance…
• Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above…
• Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and…
• Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
• No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the…
• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if…
• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is…
• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a…

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