"Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture."
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"Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head."
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"The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms."
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"Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole."
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"Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast."
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"The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal."
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"Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!"
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"The soul of the Christian religion is reverence."
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
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"Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be."
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"In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably."
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"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element."
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"What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!"
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"How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?"
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"It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated."
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"Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?"
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"When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching."
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"I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!"
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"There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better."
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"We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed."
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