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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
"When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer."
"But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that."
"She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth."
"In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art."
"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others."
"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
"What is kinder-to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance-or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?"
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"If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!"
"Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!"Science is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat while using a flashlight."
"The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart."
"Man can only use money to buy man-made goods."
"The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose."
"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
"When words make noise, silence can talk."
"We must live a life that is not geared towards living today but our existence after existing and exiting the earth. We must think of our footprints that will long exist after our existence come to its ebb. We must get reasons for existing. For what reasons are you existing?"
"The ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing."
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