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William Shakespeare
“I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

Richard P. Feynman
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
Richard Feynman

Herman Melville
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Daniel C. Dennett
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
Daniel Dennett

Slavoj Žižek
“The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie—the truth lies outside, in what we do.”
Slavoj Žižek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

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