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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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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 a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Explosions are not comfortable.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
