"The past has no power over the present moment."
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
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"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
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"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
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"Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153"
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"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
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"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
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"Whatever you do, do with all your might."
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"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
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"Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
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"They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work."
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
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"Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."
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"We feel and know that we are eternal."
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"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
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