Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The dialectical concept of reality as a social process dissolves the fetishistic forms produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.
~ György Lukács
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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