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"Anything that implies a continuity, a sequence, a passing from stage to stage cannot be real. There is no progress in reality; it is final, perfect, unrelated."

"Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we’re interpreting the morality of i…"

"We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil ever…"

"Answers determined by the social division of labor become truth as such."

"I believe that new art must differ totally in its manifestation from art as we know it, and people may be very reluctant to accept this. It is perhaps true to say, as someone did of cubism, that 'To s…"

"But how is this previous process of elevating and Christianizing the men to be effected? We must begin with the schools... In this way we shall best prepare our Indian school-boys for a voluntary acce…"

"From ridicule to calumny is but a step, and for every voice raised in defense of his honesty there were a dozen to decry him."

"True art is above false honor."

"The world steals us from ourselves and solitude restores us. The world is composed of a herd, which are ever flying from themselves. ."

"Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it."

"An Appeal to all that Doubt and Disbelieve the Truths of Revelation"

"I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself."

"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."

"Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic."

"Research can be undertaken in any kind of environment, as long as you have the interest. I believe that true education means fostering the ability to be interested in something."

"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself."

"The Germans really conceive of their country as always under war conditions in this respect. No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth and, to the German mind, they are always belligerent. The Ge…"

"The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without…"

"We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugi…"

"32. To overcome the obstacles and their accompaniments, the intense application of the will to some one truth is required."