That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.Georg C. Lichtenberg
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
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