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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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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
"And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive."
"Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know."
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"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will."
"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
"For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning."
"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought."
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