It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically. It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
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Winston S. Churchill
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
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Joe Abercrombie
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Jane Austen
It takes a very long time to become young.
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Pablo Picasso
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
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Joe Abercrombie
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The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
Wandering across a city – walking often quite alone, down dark alleys, through unfrequented districts and debouching suddenly onto main thoroughfares where for a spell one follows the main stream, is adopted by a group "he has come where we come from, wants to go...
It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.
Don't build yourself an ivory tower" the moralists say. But I am an ivory tower by the mere fact that I am. On the crude physical level the body is a frame of (ivory) bones on which the muscles are stretched, crowned by an (ivory)...
The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.
