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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that…
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The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may…
— Xenophanes
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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be…
— Max Born
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and…
— William James
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The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took…
— Bob Woodward
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This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus…
— Ken Wilber
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Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
— Ramana Maharshi
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