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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
"And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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