"It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space."
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself."
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"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
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"A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities."
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
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"I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
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"The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort."
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"In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it."
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"Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging."
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"The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind."
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"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
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"Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS."
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"Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will."
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"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
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"Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust."
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"Each day is a little life."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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