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Acquire a method of perceiving how all things change into one another.
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102
a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him
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if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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But we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more are we capable of seeing.
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The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;--such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontaneous manifestations of the child's nature.
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He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.
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Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.
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I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.
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They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
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It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.
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I try to scare myself at least once a day.
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There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other, arising from their necessary and unavoidable relations; which rights and duties there is no common human authority to protect and enforce.
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All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.
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the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.verified·Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (dissenting)·November 10, 1919
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it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker
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It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.
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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.
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But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.