I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

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Explosions are not comfortable.

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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.

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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

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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.

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

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You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

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