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I’ve heard tell that there used to be military outfits whose chaplains did not fight alongside the others, but I’ve never been able to see how that could work. I mean, how can a chaplain bless anything he’s not willing to do himself?
“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”
― Philosophy: Who Needs It
― Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Why struggle to discover the world if you can make it become whatever you wish--by wishing?”
― The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
― The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“You cannot reach a mind that chooses to be closed or is so incapacitated that even if, momentarily, it wanted to integrate properly, it could not. Such a mind lacks the capacity of full focus, and is the proper concern only of a psychotherapist.”
― The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
― The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination,” Plagueis said. “Courage comes next.”
― Darth Plagueis
― Darth Plagueis
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the young, of the old, of the unborn.' There are only the Rights of Man -- rights possessed by every individual man and by all men as individuals.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
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