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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."

"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
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