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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,…
— George Santayana
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Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from…
— Jack Gleeson
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I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals…
— Carl Jung
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
— Immanuel Kant
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:…
— Immanuel Kant
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:…
— Immanuel Kant
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to…
— Thomas Paine
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral…
— Immanuel Kant
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