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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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