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“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not transferable to any other species. The experiences - and therefore the realities - of two different organisms are incommensurable with one another. In the world of a fly, says Uexkull, we find only "fly things"; in the world of a sea urchin we find only "sea urchin things.”
― An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
― An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
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