"Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger."

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“A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen .”

“Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.”

“The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.”

“Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.”

“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”

“No self can truly know itself and be ashamed.”

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