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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."

"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."

"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."

"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."

"Every fiction has its base in fact."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in."

"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."

"The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."
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