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No man can
live without the sacred and precious memories of childhood. |
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When …
in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his
own interests? |
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For what is
man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an
organ pipe? |
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Talking
nonsense is man’s only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. |
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You laugh at
your dream’s absurdities, and at the same time you feel that in the fabric of those
absurdities some thought is hidden, but a thought that is real, something belonging to
your actual life, something that exists and has always existed in your actual life. |
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If there is
no God, then I am God. |
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So long as
man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some
one to worship. |
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In an
abstract love for humanity one almost always loves only oneself. |
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The complete
atheist stands on the penultimate step to most perfect faith. |
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You are told
a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood,
is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with
him, he is saved for the rest of his days. |
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It is not
the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart,
generous qualities, progressive ideas. |
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Neither man
nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. |
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