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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

—W. Somerset Maugham
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

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Gray, worthy friend, is all your theory
And green the golden tree of life.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The philosophical quest became obscured in the modern West by the linear succession of schools, each resulting from a violent reaction to its predecessors, each claiming to possess the Truth more or less exclusively, and often insisting upon the sole validity of its method of proceeding. The slavish concern with academic respectability and the fear of anathemization resulted in the increasing alienation of thought from being, of cognition from conduct, and philosophical disputation from the problems of daily life.

—Raghavan Iyer
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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Behave as best you know, do what you think you should. Don't be afraid of mistakes; you can always correct them, only intentions matter. The shape things take is not within your power; the motives of your actions are.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj
The truth is lived, not taught.

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Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

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The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

—Oscar Wilde
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions.

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is imitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

—Confucius

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