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"Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification."
"I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you."
"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure."
"Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit."
"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time."
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought"
"A thing's innate disposition does not lie."
"O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform."
"A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation."
"The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
"He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger"
"He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."
"Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity."
"He who does not desire power is fit to hold it."
"We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving."
"The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree."
"If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'"
"The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen."
