The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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