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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does.
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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
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All kinds of materialism lead one to treat every man including oneself as an object, that is, as a set of pre-determined reactions, in no way different from the patterns of qualities and phenomena which constitute a table, or a chair or a stone. Our aim is precisely to establish the human kingdom as a pattern of values in distinction from the material world.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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Postponement is simply stupid. Tomorrow you will also have to decide, so why not today? And do you think that tomorrow you will be wiser than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be livelier than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be younger than today, fresher than today? Tomorrow you will be older, your courage will be less; tomorrow you will be more experienced, your cunningness will be more; tomorrow death will come closer, you will start wavering and being more afraid. Never postpone for the tomorrow. And who knows? Tomorrow may come or may not come. If you have to decide you have to decide right now. Dr. Vogel, the dentist, finished his examination on a pretty young patient. "Miss baseman," he said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull out your wisdom teeth!" "Oh, my!" Exclaimed the girl. "I'd rather have a baby!" "Well," said dr. Vogel, "could you make up your mind so that I can adjust the chair?" Make up your mind. Don't go on postponing infinitely.
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That was a good reply which Diogenes made to a man who asked him for letters of recommendation: that you are a man, he will know when he sees you; whether a good or bad one, he will know if he has any skill in discerning the good or bad. But if he has none, he will never know, though I write him a thousand times.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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