"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."

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"If one category had to be designated as an emblem of my thought, it would be neither Cantor's pure multiple, nor Godel's constructible, nor the void, by which being is named, nor even the event, in wh…"

— Alain Badiou

Philosophy1937

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"The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, p…"

— John Lancaster Spalding

Literature1840–1916

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"It was an appeal to reason, and they’re always dangerous. You can’t trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it."

— Frederik Pohl

Literature1919–2013

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"He’s hitting hard against what the American societal definition of what being a black man is and also a diasporic Nigerian conception of what being a black man is."

— Tope Folarin

Entertainment1982

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