"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."

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"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."

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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Politics, War

"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."

Army, Culture, Defeat, Enemy

"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."

History, Civilization, Struggle, Years

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."

Change, Experience, Knowledge, Eating

"To read too many books is harmful."

Books,

"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."

History, People, Force, Motive

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

War, Order

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

Art, Politics, Cause, Fact

"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

Flowers,

"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."

Energy,

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"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Possibility, Mind

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams, American Historian

Thought, Words

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Thought, Man, Words

"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Logic

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Now, Problems

"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."

Scipio Africanus, Roman Soldier

Thought, Fool