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We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ↗

— Albert Einstein

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. ↗

— Plato

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

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It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

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