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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.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
Explosions are not comfortable.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
