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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known
The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason
You have to study a great deal to know a little
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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