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Kurt Gödel
“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.”
Kurt Godël

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Conscience is the voice of God.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

Norm Macdonald
“It’s funny how something as small as the news of a teenager being slaughtered and tossed in a ravine can be enough to lift the spirits of an entire set full of important Hollywood people.”
Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story

Thomas Bernhard
“Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.”
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

Simon Critchley
“Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth.”
Simon Critchley, Suicide

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