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“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
― The Bataille Reader
― The Bataille Reader
“Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they’ve become culturally entrenched—once they’ve become tribal badges of honor—are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.”
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
― Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.”
― The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
― The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
“People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.”
― A Woman of No Importance
― A Woman of No Importance
“One grows out of pity when it's useless.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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