"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

Thought, End, Invention, Man

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"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

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"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

Johann Most, German Revolutionary

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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

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"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."

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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

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"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."

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"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."

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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."

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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."

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"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."

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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."

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