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 | "The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number
of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer
irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and
less...." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is
meaningless." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." | |
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Found in the topic Forgive.
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| "Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be
true or false, and the hypocrite"s crime is that he bears false witness
against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is
the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of
all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true,
confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is
really rotten to the core." | |
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Found in the topic Intentions.
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| "Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence ... the
science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the
universe which are concealed by appearances." | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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| "Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making
it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly
possible." | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is
dangerous." | |
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Found in the topic Thief.
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| "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to
think." | |
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Found in the topic Tyranny.
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| "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of
defining it." | |
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Found in the topic Meaning.
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