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Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
What does culture want; To make infinity comprehensible.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
"Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
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