"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."

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"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."

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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."

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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

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"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

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Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

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