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"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."
"We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease."
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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."
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