“Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.”
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“Intuition is a power, or a light, by which a human being perceives the realities of things without the medium of the outward senses.”
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“And this is what I learned: that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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