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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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