in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
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Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man, but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything. And all rites are of this kind.
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