"Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work."
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"For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations."
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"Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers."
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"The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else."
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"Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have."
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"He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion."
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"The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me."
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"Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?"
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"It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them."
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"For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope."
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"sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers"
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"What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same."
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"The happy man does not notice the flight of time."
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"We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it."
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"You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'."
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"The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence"
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"I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding."
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"He who does not lie does not know what truth is."
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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"One does not kill by anger but by laughter."
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