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“A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.”

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Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer renowned for his children's literature. His works were distinguished by their simplicity and moral lessons, making them widely popular among young readers. more

“In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.”

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Author:Kirsten Olson

“To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.”

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Author:Bryan Magee

“Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.”

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“It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.”

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“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.”

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“The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.”

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“I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.”

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Author:Gerhard

“What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.”

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“The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.”

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“You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.”

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