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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."
"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
"Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry."
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