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Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts

The Way of Zen

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

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That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. Cogitationes de Natura Rerum [Thought on the Nature of Things]. c. 1604.

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Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

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Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 10.

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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns, not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

Giordano Bruno

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Bruno, Giordano. De l'infinito, universo e mondi [On the Infinite Universe and Worlds]. London, 1584.

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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The end justifies the means.

Hermann Busenbaum

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Busenbaum, Hermann. Medulla Theologiae Moralis. 1650.

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

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Lewis, C. S. "Answers to Questions on Christianity." God in the Dock. Eerdmans, 1970, pt. 1, ch. 4, q. 1. Originally presented as the speech, "One Man Brains Trust" 18 Apr. 1944, Head Office of Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, England, UK, q. 1.

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

Tommaso Campanella

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Campanella, Tommaso. Apologia pro Galileo [In Defense of Galileo]. Frankfurt am Main: Gottfried Tampach, 1622, ch. 4.

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Campanella, Thomas. Defense of Galileo, translated by Richard J. Blackwell. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, ch. 4.

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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "Dreams and Facts." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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Good and Evil, Reward and Punishment, are the only Motives to a rational Creature: These are the Spur and Reins whereby all Mankind are set on Work, and guided.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 54.

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Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 54.

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