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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

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"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe."

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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