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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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