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The greatest genius assimilates unconsciously the best with which it comes in contact, and by a subtle chemistry of its own makes new combinations.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Without Dogma (1891)

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Without Dogma (1891)

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Quo Vadis (1895)

Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

Quo Vadis (1895)

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.

Quo Vadis (1895)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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