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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Philosophical entities exist only insofar as they have been philosophically posited. Outside their philosophical framework, the empirical data that a philosophy organizes lose every possible unity and cohesion.
~ Umberto Eco
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When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
~ Umberto Eco
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
~ Man Ray
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn’t take their fancy.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
~ Man Ray
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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