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Manly Hall: It is only...

Manly Hall: It is only...

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in...

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Manly Hall: The end of...

Manly Hall: The end of...

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Source: In...

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Plato: Beauty of style...

Plato: Beauty of style...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

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Plutarch: Rest is the...

Plutarch: Rest is the...

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: To endure is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: To endure is...

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to...

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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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Emile M Cioran: No one can...

Emile M Cioran: No one can...

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

Source: In The...

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Emile M Cioran: If we could...

Emile M Cioran: If we could...

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Source:...

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: You are not...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: You are not...

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human...

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Epictetus: First say to...

Epictetus: First say to...

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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Epictetus: The greater the...

Epictetus: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and...

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Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Many a man's...

Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Many a man's...

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In music the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In music the...

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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Phillips Brooks: A man who...

Phillips Brooks: A man who...

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his...

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William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg.

Source: De generatione animalium,...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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