If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
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Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
