Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.Victor Hugo
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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