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We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

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I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

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There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

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Explanations exist, they have existed for all times, for there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

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Most philosophical treatises show the human cerebrum loaded far beyond its Plimsoll mark.

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School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

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Democracy is shot through with this delight in the incredible, this banal mysticism. I have alluded to its touching acceptance of the faith that progress is illimitable and ordained of God - that every human problem, in the very nature of things, may be solved.

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