“I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom.”

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“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads”

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“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken”

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“In general, I find that things that have happened to me out of doors have made a deeper impression than things that have happened indoors.”

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“What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”

Chapters: 14. Finding and Following the Formless Form

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