• Defects

  Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

  3.1 · 44 votes · 150 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  4.5 · 30 votes · 180 reads

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• Society

  The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges

  3.8 · 64 votes · 134 reads

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• Society

  There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  4.2 · 63 votes · 61 reads

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• Virtues

  To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness -is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

  3.2 · 62 votes · 196 reads

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• Society

  To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life)

  3.9 · 26 votes · 65 reads

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