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"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."

"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."

"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."

"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
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