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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

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Love is blind, friends close their eyes

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

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as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

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