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"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

"To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts."

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."
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