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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

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The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

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