"There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it."
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"That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it."
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"Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude."
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"The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man."
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"What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without."
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"A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples."
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"The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it."
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"The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes."
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"Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees."
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"Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions."
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"Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion."
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"When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it."
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"What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind."
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"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate."
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"If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too."
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"There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others"
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"Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom."
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"For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time."
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"Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education."
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"If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough."
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