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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word “fuck.” – Author unknown

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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. – La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

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