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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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"Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
"By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ['Svp "ArrAat sur image']"
"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."
"When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn't happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect one. Color me unimpressed by the Actus Purus."
"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."
"Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?"
"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."
"It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health."
"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."
"The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
"Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed."
"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."
"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."
"If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further."
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
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