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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
"I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech."
"Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it."
"The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information."
"We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors."
"Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?"
"The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds."
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