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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."

"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

"A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it."

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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