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“The enemy was a tangible thing, a propagandist’s monster whom you could understand, whom you could hate.”
― The Forever War
― The Forever War
“The mental state that occurs during orgasm has been described as an "altered state of consciousness" that may lead to a state of tranquility and deep unconsciousness, to which the French have attributed the name "le petit mort", the little death.”
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“Toute la difficulté réside en ceci:
rester fidèle dans l’exécution aux principes qu'on s'est fixés.”
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rester fidèle dans l’exécution aux principes qu'on s'est fixés.”
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“Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Gödel’s incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.”
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
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