Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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A man who is ""of sound mind"" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

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