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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

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No man should be angry with what is true.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

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Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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