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Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")