The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

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