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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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127
But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
128
For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
129
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.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
132
The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.
133
The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
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the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
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By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.
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For the mind requires not like an earthen vessel to be filled up; convenient fuel and aliment only will inflame it with a desire of knowledge and ardent love of truth.
Socratesmisattributed·Of Hearing, in Plutarch's Morals, Volume 1 (corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin)·1878
Wrongly attributed
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel is printed on university walls under Socrates's name. Socrates wrote nothing at all, and the sentence is not in Plato either. It is Plutarch, four hundred years later, in the Moralia essay usually called On Listening to Lectures -- and it is not an aphorism about education but a rebuke to a student who sits and admires the lecturer instead of thinking. Note what the tidy modern version loses: Plutarch does not say the mind is a flame to be kindled, he says it is not a pot, and that what it wants is fuel.
139
The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy.
140
Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
141
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
142
Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
143
In short, all artificial education ought to be an anticipation of natural education.
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Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game.
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Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience
146
The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
148
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
Wrongly attributed
Voltaire never wrote this. Evelyn Beatrice Hall composed the sentence in 1906 to paraphrase his stance on Helvetius, writing under the pen name S. G. Tallentyre. She later confirmed it was her own phrasing, not a quotation.
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.