Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
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A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves
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Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the othe...
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep
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Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
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Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
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