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- The more you look, the more you see.
- I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.
- For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all…
- What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The…
- Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
- every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
- The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal.…
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
- Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think…
- This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of…
- It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel,…
- The more you read, the more you calm down.
- Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated,…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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