Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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

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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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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

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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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Explosions are not comfortable.

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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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