• Government and Politics

  It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

  3.8 · 7 votes · 46 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

  3.6 · 17 votes · 117 reads

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• Virtues

  Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

  4.7 · 14 votes · 199 reads

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• Various

  Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

  3.9 · 53 votes · 75 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

  3.2 · 25 votes · 168 reads

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• Nature

  The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no pre

  4.5 · 57 votes · 142 reads

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• Nature

  The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

  4.3 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

  3.6 · 50 votes · 96 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which t

  4.0 · 38 votes · 42 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  What is uttered is finished and done with.

  3.5 · 63 votes · 78 reads

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