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If the end does not justify the means – what can?

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.