“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
