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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."

"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."

"You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it."

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."

"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."

"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."

"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
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