"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

Thought, Reason, Thinking

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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

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