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"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see."
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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up."
"I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself."
"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
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"That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed."
"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."
"If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed."
"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all."
"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
"This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view."
"I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me."
"As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type."
"No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement."
"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought."
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