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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: lies, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Georg Cantor
    “In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
    ― Georg Cantor
    tags: mathematics, questions
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    Antonio Gramsci
    “[...] but we know. and have always said, that the bourgeoisie is attached to fascism. The bourgeois and fascism stand in the same relation to each other as do the workers and peasants to the Russian Communist Party.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from political writings: 1921-1926
    tags: bolsheviks, bourgeoisie, capitalism, communism, fascism, gramsci, marxism
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    Franz Boas
    “I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason to believe that one race is by nature so much more intelligent, endowed with great will power, or emotionally more stable than another that the difference would materially influence its culture.”
    ― Franz Boas, Race, Language, and Culture
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    Franz Boas
    “The results of her painstaking investigation confirm the suspicion long held by anthropologists, that much of what we ascribe to human nature is no more than a reaction to the restraints put upon us by our civilisation.”
    ― Franz Boas, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
    tags: 1928, foreword, franz-boas
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno
    tags: civilization, critical-theory, cultural-criticism, culture, culture-critique, decline, decline-of-civilization, dialectic, dialectics, enlightenment, philosophy, society, the-dialectic-of-enlightenment, the-enlightenment, the-west, western-culture
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The world is everything that is the case.”
    ― Wittgenstein Ludwig
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “We are struggling with language.
    We are engaged in a struggle with language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: culture, history, knowledge, language, linguistics, mythology
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Understand or die.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    tags: language, thought
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The world is independent of my will.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
    tags: emotion, knowledge, self-actualisation, suffering
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
    tags: ethics, hate, love, philosophy
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: philosophy
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    Émile Durkheim
    “We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”
    ― Émile Durkheim
    tags: crime, society, theor
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Here too it’s masquerade, I find:
    As everywhere, the dance of mind.
    I grasped a lovely masked procession,
    And caught things from a horror show…
    I’d gladly settle for a false impression,
    If it would last a little longer, though.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: comfort, fake, false, illusion, impression, mask
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.”
    ― Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang
    tags: classic, romantic
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