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“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a fatalist.
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a fatalist.
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.