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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements…
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our…
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and…
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
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If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
— Walter Raleigh
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I would fain die a dry death.
— William Shakespeare
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I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I…
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King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see…
— William Shakespeare
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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
— Robert Herrick
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What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years…
— Monty Roberts
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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