"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."
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"Understand that the only possession of any value is life."
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"Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes"
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"A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned"
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"Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you."
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"Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'."
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"I do not love men: I love what devours them."
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"The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses."
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""Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention."
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"Prejudices are the props of civilization."
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"The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image."
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"Sadness is a state of sin."
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"The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself."
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"It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself."
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"The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea."
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"Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else."
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"I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near."
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"Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured."
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"By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked."
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"The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds."
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