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- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
- Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
- What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?