The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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The more stitches, the less riches.

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The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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