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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand read more
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he read more
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
