An honest thinker will highlight and confront the most intimidating counterargument. A dishonest thinker will seek out the most ludicrous counterargument and pretend it is the only counterargument.

The Stoic Emperor

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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