"Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method."
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"Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character."
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"If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution."
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"The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature."
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"Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there."
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"The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine."
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"I wait for the morning of my tears"
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"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
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"Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease."
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"The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources"
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"One lives but once in the world."
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"One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves."
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"If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ."
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"The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers."
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"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
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"If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it."
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"Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest."
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"When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul."
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"Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones."
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"One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message."
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