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"Philosophy is not the repetition of tradition but the critical examination of it."

— Marcien Towa

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"The idea that African culture should remain unchanged is contrary to the very nature of culture."

"Freedom begins with the courage to think for oneself."

"A people who refuse criticism also refuse progress."

"Modernity is not the abandonment of identity but the capacity to recreate it."

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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.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

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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