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"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"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."

"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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"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
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