How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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