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"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."

"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."

"Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you, then create within your reality the things that you desire."

"The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!"

"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."

"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."

"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
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