The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
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The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
…[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.