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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.