
“Book speaks in silence.”
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“Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“The word “intelligentsia” is of Russian origin; its coinage bears witness to the fact that intellectuals, whatever their original social or economic class, felt themselves a distinct cultural group in Russia because by their very nature they were alienated from the rest of the society.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“the Russians did not have philosophers, but they did have Dostoevski and Tolstoy; and the substitute was perhaps not a total loss.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life, by which something great may be made out of even the paltriest and most banal of occurrences.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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