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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Theories pass. The frog remains.
To be adult is to be alone.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.