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"The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
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"The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again."
Thought
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
Possibility
"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"
God
"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
Reflection
"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"
Life
"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."
Art
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
Nothing
"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
People
"Life is to blame for everything."
Life
"Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop."
Progress
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