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• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It…
• Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,…
• What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
• Ambition and suspicion always go together.
• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even…
• We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the…
• I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I…
• Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this…
• If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x…
• If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.…
• Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
• The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

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