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One's religious duty, totally independent of the crippling religions of crippling churches, is . . . understanding the world.

— Imre Kertész

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Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?

Detective Story (2008)

On the other hand, what is really irrational and what truly cannot be explained is not evil but, contrarily, the good.

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

If people had understood the greatness of those works, they would have destroyed them long ago.

Liquidation (2003)

I exist. Is this a life still? No, just vegetating. It seems that only one philosophy can succeed the philosophy of existentialism: nonexistentialism, the philosophy of nonexistent existence.

Detective Story (2008)

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

Detective Story (2008)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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