“The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.”
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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