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"My religion consists of a
humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself
in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble
mind."
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"Reality is merely an
illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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"A person starts to live when
he can live outside himself."
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"Anyone who has never made
a mistake has never tried anything new."
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"Gravitation is not responsible
for people falling in love."
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"The most beautiful thing we
can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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"You see, wire telegraph is
a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates
exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no cat."
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"A human being is a part of
a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest...
a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection
for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
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