The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
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