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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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