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“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
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“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
“Intellect is not wisdom.”
― Intellectuals and Society
― Intellectuals and Society
“The main thing, when a sword cuts into one’s soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable.”
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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