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“I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.”
― How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
― How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“I can influence others, but I'm not responsible for others.”
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“Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.”
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“Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.”
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“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working on. While others were writing blackboard-filling formulas to express the laws of elementary particles, he would just draw a picture and figure out the answer.”
― The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
― The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
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