"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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“Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”
“No society can ever be so large as one man.”
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“A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.”
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.”
“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
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“I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.”
“No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.”
“You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.”