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The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Foucault's Pendulum (1989)

The window on the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel.

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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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