The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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Poles are able to reflect their history, they respect it. Who knows if anybody will remember when we commemorate our 25 years since the 1989 Velvet Revolution.Vaclav Havel
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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He tries to explain why man behaves most improbably, strangely, at variance with his nature, how it is possible for instance that a calm, rather neutral petty bourgeois is all of a sudden capable of commanding a concentration camp, burning to death or gassing thousands of people, and afterwards returning to his clerk's life as if nothing happened,
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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