“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“When we are no longer able to change a situation—just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer—we are challenged to change ourselves.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat...”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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