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Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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Gothic cathedrals and Doric temples are mathematics in stone.

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Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

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Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

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What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

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Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

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Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

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One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

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Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

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All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

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We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

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Optimism is cowardice. We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end.

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And so the development of the new mathematic consists of a long, secret, and finally victorious battle against the notion of magnitude.

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When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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Statistics belong, like chronology, to the domain of the organic, to fluctuating Life, to Destiny and Incident, and not to the world of laws and timeless causality.

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The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

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