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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – Francis H. Bradley

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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