Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
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We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
