“There was a time, and we can easily see it in the five or six centuries that run roughly from the time of Socrates to the time of Epictetus, when the idea of education was very simple, and the supposed consequences of education, tremendous. With us, it is the other way around.”
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“The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things — or even to see the self-evident things.”
“God works in very simple ways. But simplicity sometimes is rather too less of an answer to us…”
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