"Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way."
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"Wisdom is only found in truth."
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"To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden."
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"There is no patriotic art."
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"The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it."
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"If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do."
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"A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator."
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"Energy will do anything that can be done in this world."
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"Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another."
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"Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else."
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"When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better."
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"Man must strive, and striving he must err."
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"It is opposition that makes us productive."
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"The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors."
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"True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them."
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"Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence."
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"Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past."
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"We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic."
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"To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them."
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"To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance."
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