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"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

"I mostly liked the thought which was said in the film Person of Interest "If you think that chess is the life, you must lose", incrediable thought. With this though you can reach a position when you can say all people are different or probably further. But the question is how much further can you reach?"

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."


"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."


"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."


"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."


"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."


"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
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