A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.G. C. Lichtenberg
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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