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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
"People see what they expect to see."
"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
"I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed."
"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!"
"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."
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"It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!"
"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."
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
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