"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
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"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
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"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
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"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."
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"Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain."
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"It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity"
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
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"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
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"I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."
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"Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages."
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"I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War."
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"The world is independent of my will."
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"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
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"Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word."
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"They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women."
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"Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt."
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"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
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"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
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