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“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“He who would know the world must first manufacture it.”
― Immanuel Kant, Opus Postumum