The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.
~ Richard Rorty
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At times our more privileged campuses can seem stuck in the world of archaic religion. Only those with an approved identity status are, like shamans, allowed to speak on certain matters.
~ Mark Lilla
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My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
~ Richard Rorty
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Freedom is the recognition of contingency.
~ Richard Rorty
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov
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It is true that when pride releases energies and serves as a spur to achievement, it can lead to a reconciliation with the self and the attainment of genuine self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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