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The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
 
What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?
 
The hypothesis of God is a peculiar one, in that it supposes an infinitely incomprehensible object, although every hypothesis, as such, supposes its object to be truly conceived in the hypothesis.
 
ARCHITECTURE: The art of how to waste space.
 
IDIOT: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
 
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
 
I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
 
The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
 
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
 
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
 
I also know that one must do what one can do. No matter how little it is, it is nonetheless a human testimony and human testimonies, as long as they are not based on greed or personal ambition for power, can have unexpected positive effects. ...I believe in local action and in small dimensions. It is only in such environments that human creativity and meaningful identities can truly surface and flourish.
 
We argue so much today about 'democracy' versus 'totalitarianism'. Democracy presupposes intelligence of the masses;* totalitarianism does not to the same degree. But a 'democracy' without intelligence of the masses under modern conditions can be a worse human mess than any dictatorship could be.
 
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.
 
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
 
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
 
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
 
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 
Better to be disliked than pitied.
 
Information: any difference that makes a difference.
 
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
 
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