"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories."
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"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
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"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."
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"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."
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"Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena."
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"The Soul should always stand ajar."
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"The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory."
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"What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter."
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"By far the best proof is experience."
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"We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience."
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"The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime."
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"We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience."
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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
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"Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"A man can't retire his experience."
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"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."
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"We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable."
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"We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices."
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