"When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost."
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
"I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's."
"Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future."
"Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost."
"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?"
"Never tire to study. And to teach to others"
"To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?"
"The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics."
"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has."
"Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners."
"But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed."
"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
"If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness."
"Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems."
"Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it."
"The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity."
"He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer."