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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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Our body is a machine for living.

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Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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