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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"Do it or not, but do."
"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time."
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
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