Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence small ambitions evoke small efforts
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
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When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth.
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