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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
Explore more quotes by Walter Rudolf Hess
"Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section."
"At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation."
"This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order."
"The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered."
"It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking."
"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."
"In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order."
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