“If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: ‘How do you wish the world to be in fifty years?’ and ‘What do you want your life to be like five years from now?’ the answers are quite often preceded by a ‘Provided that there is still a world,’ and ‘Provided I am still alive.”
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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.”