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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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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.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.