1. Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
Athens and Jerusalem
2. After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.
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3. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.
Athens and Jerusalem
4. The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.
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