#intellectual honesty

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely

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The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number,

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry

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Why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive—in other words, only what is

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I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention

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Sometimes in the course of conversation, the sound of our own voice disconcerts us and misleads us into making assertions

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The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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Reason: the rust of our vitality. We cannot be normal and alive at the same time. We derive our vitality from our store

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

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Which of us, turning to look back down the road along which there is no return, could say that we had walked that road as

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Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

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If there is one thing I loathe, it’s a reformer. A reformer is a man who sees the superficial ills of the world and

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