Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've be

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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledg

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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

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Philosophy can make people sick.

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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you mu

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We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an

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His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im

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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present co

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism w

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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to

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Plato was a bore.

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little

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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t

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...reality is always plural and mutable.

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