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“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”
― Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987
― Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
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“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
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“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ”
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“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
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