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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Giants
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Art
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
People
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
Man
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Truth
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Thought
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
Truth
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
Numbers
"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Science
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
Action
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