

“To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“Book speaks in silence.”
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“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life, by which something great may be made out of even the paltriest and most banal of occurrences.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“The word “intelligentsia” is of Russian origin; its coinage bears witness to the fact that intellectuals, whatever their original social or economic class, felt themselves a distinct cultural group in Russia because by their very nature they were alienated from the rest of the society.”
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
― Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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