"But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction."
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"... a science must deal with a subject and its properties."
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"... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity."
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"Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated."
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"Enjoy the questions and forget the answers."
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"Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?"
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"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
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"Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right."
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"... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me."
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"Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!"
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"Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them."
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"At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . ."
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"Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"
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"Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour."
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"Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics."
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"Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum."
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"The world is continuous flux and is impermanent."
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"Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!"
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"You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn."
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"The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing."
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