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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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The leaves and the light are one.