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  1. We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
  2. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
  3. Every boat is copied from another boat... Let's reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end…
  4. If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
  5. It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always …
  6. When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts…
  7. Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue i…
  8. As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movem…

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