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"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
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