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“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
― Sudelbücher.
― Sudelbücher.
“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
― The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”
― Magic Mountain
― Magic Mountain
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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