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> "To Dr. Faustus in his study Mephistopheles told the history of the Creation, saying: 'The endless praises of the choirs of angels had begun to grow...
> "I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the ...
> "Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be tr...
> "If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatr...
> "Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nat...
> "Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly... It is nothing joint...
> "The solid meaning of life is always the same eternal thing,—the marriage, namely, of some unhabitual ideal, however special, with some fidelity, co...
> "It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living." In this 1922 lecture, Bertrand R...