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"Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the planned cooperation of many thousands, civilization, the State; and then, science, the storing up of previous experience, the summarizing into one concept of what is common, the communication of truth, the spreading of error, thoughts and poems, dogmas and superstitions. The animal learns to know death only when he dies, but man consciously draws every hour nearer his death; and at times this makes life a precarious business, even to the man who has not already recognized this character of constant annihilation in the whole of life itself."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Life is all about discovery."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."
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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."
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"Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
Knowledge
"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
Man
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
Death
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
Nature
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Nature
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
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