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The philosopher is not someone who has thought instead of us but rather someone who makes us think.

— Joxe Azurmendi Oraingo gazte eroak (1998)

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The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.

Tyrannies, when they are strong, and democracies, when they are weak, can not tolerate criticism.

The Basques are Argonauts with very fragile ships.

Interview in Hegats 45 (2010)

Is not true that, in this world, before being paper citizens we are our mother's sons in the flesh. What is a human being in reality? To start from the beginning: What are peoples, cultures and what are then custom-houses, parliaments and states? Everybody carries a nursery rhyme in the soul, but nobody carries a passport or a custom-house in the soul.

Demokratak eta biolentoak (1997)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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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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