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"Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
"Life is all about discovery."
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"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought."
"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."
"But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends."
"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see."
"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all."
"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
"I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me."
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