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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
Explosions are not comfortable.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
