"The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world."
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"All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part."
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"Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything."
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"The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest."
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"Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t."
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"Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated."
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"The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened."
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"Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator."
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"Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment."
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"The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude."
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"Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults."
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"To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses."
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"Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense."
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"When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures."
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"Ogni nostra cognitione prīcipia da sentimēti. All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions."
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"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air."
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"I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is."
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"Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful."
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"Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device."
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"Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love."
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