“If one looks at this record with eyes unclouded by theories and traditions, religious or secular, it is certainly hard to escape the conclusion that philosophers seem genetically unable to come to terms with certain phenomena of the mind and its position in the world, that we can no more trust men of thought to arrive at a fair estimate of human action.”
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“Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere, and whenever he can.”
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“Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”