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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Thinking Stills Philosophical Thought Provoking Provoking Our Thoughts Deep Thought

Author:Martin Heidegger

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

World Sin Interesting Crime Stupid Philosophical Finals Caught Stupidity Guilty Thought Provoking Thieves Hunters Las Vegas Loathing Gonzo Fear And Loathing

Book:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”

Ifs Life Is Universe One Thing Philosophical Size Proportion Thought Provoking

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?”

Writing Long Lying Fall Talking Honesty Shapes Degrees Conscious Philosophical Artistic Thought Provoking Provoking Telling Lies

Book:A patriot after all, 1940-1941

Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.”

Ifs Kind Together Literature Saws Months Philosophical Newspapers Thought Provoking Provoking

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”

Trying Born Teach Philosophical Selfish Generosity Thought Provoking Genes Altruism God Delusion Selfish Gene

Book:The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition

Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

Men Mean Fighting Evil Philosophical Thought Provoking

Book:The Judgment of the Nations

Source: The Judgment of the Nations