I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

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Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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