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If it fails in this commitment to penetrate the human, to spread socially, philosophy has missed the opportunity offered to it by the times.

— Gustavo Bontadini

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All disciplines have being as their ultimate material object; but it must be said that metaphysics has it as its formal object.

Between being and nothingness there is no middle ground.

Philosophy and metaphysics are notorious because of the endless disputes that have always devastated them.

A generic humanitarian sentiment can lead to peace as well as war, to oppression as well as freedom, to violence as well as resignation.

Educators must know how to measure the weight of what they promote.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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