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“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”
“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the un...”
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
“A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.”
“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”
“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
“There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the ...”
“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocati...”
“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...”
“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”
“I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have ...”
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his o...”
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
“If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.”
