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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."

"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."
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