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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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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. – Woody Allen

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. – Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993

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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. – Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950

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