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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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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
