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Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium ...

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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

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If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst...

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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literar...

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Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the mea...

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The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the...

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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bl...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms