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“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.”
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”
― Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
― Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
“The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine”
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“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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