A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Never Give In!
To stand in the midst of ... this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity in existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning ... that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human has this feeling just because he is human. The Gay Science
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond. Don Quixote
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. Sweet Thursday
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