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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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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…
— Francis Bacon
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
— Knute Rockne
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In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
— Zubin Mehta
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…
— John F. Kennedy
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with…
— Howard Nemerov
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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate…
— Paul Lynde
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
— Aldous Huxley
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You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be…
— Janette Rallison
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
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