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Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.


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In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.



Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.



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Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.



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Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.



Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers



Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.



To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.



So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.



... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.





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