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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

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One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

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The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything.” I say, “Only one man can do anything.”

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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