I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
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As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?
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Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
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Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
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Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
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Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.
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We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires
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Never say never, he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.
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