"Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height."
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"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."
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"Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent."
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"Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them."
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?"
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"A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature."
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"If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls."
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"Where a man can live, he can also live well."
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"Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared."
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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
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"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."
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"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
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"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."
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"For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others."
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"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it."
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"It seems that laughter needs an echo."
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