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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
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"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."

"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"

"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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