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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as th... - MORE The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

Louis Aragon

fantasy

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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

antithesis | truth and falsehood | errors

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"Their name liveth for ever," the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied... - MORE "Their name liveth for ever," the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.

Siegfried Sassoon

death | betrayal | war

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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which know... - MORE I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Anne Sullivan

obedience

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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

prejudice

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

arts

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowl... - MORE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

opinion

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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and havin... - MORE The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

philosophical | Greece and the Greeks

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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantm... - MORE What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

philosophical | poetry | poets | thinking | thoughtful

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cos... - MORE Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

science

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