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"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."
"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."
"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."
"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
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