It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. The Grapes of Wrath
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common. Beyond Good and Evil
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Fragment
“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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