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"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."
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"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
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"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"Good music is very close to primitive language."
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"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
Philosophy

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
Man

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
Art

"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Poetry

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
Man

"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
Nature
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