"Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?"

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

“Only the idiot is equipped to breathe.”

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.”

“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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— Mircea Eliade

Literature1907–1986

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— Lil Boosie

Music1982

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"This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things."

— Thomas Chatterton

Art1752–1770

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"My visceral perception of brotherhood harmonizes with our best modern biological knowledge. Many people think that equality of human races represents a hope of liberal sentimentality probably squashed…"

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science1941–2002

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