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"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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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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