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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
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