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“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
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“Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?”
― Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
― Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcendental is to be 'free' of reality. This is surely the most elegant euphemism in the history of Western philosophy.”
― The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
― The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
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