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“What is imagination?...
It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees...The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love...Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
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“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring.] There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
― Forces of Nature
― Forces of Nature
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in his life.”
― The Feeling of Meaninglessness: A Challenge to Psychotherapy and Philosophy
― The Feeling of Meaninglessness: A Challenge to Psychotherapy and Philosophy
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