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"Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher."
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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
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"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."

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

"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."

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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