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"African philosophy must be judged by the same standards of logical rigor as philosophy anywhere else."

— Lansana Keita

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"The challenge before Africa is not merely political liberation but epistemological liberation."

"Philosophy is fundamentally a rational and critical enterprise, irrespective of the culture in which it is practiced."

"Economic development requires intellectual independence as much as political independence."

"Reason belongs to no civilization; it is the common inheritance of humanity."

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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.

Robert Anton Wilson

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.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

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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