Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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