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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."
"Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure."
"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?"
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!"
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"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."
"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."
"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
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