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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when ...more

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which childr...more

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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his ...more

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends ...more

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they sho...more

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects mor...more