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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous read more
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and read more
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow read more
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.