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“You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.”
Parerga and Paralipomena • Arthur Schopenhauer“I, too, am a poor, weak dog that needs a little warmth and food, and would occasionally like to feel the nearness of his own kind”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
Candide • Voltaire“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
So Be It; or, The Chips Are Down • Andre Gide“For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them.”
A Confession • Leo Tolstoy