People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
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Heraclitus
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
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Luther Burbank
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act...
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William Ellery Channing
You are the heirs of infinite love and light. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Come out, O lions, and shake off the...
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Abhijit Naskar
Life is like riding, you will only have harmony once you stop fighting it.
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Catherine Louise Birmingham
More Quotes By Alexander Von Humboldt
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others–but none in themselves...
I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects...
