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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

– Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

– Albert Einstein

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

– Carl Gustav Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

– Carl Gustav Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

– Carl Gustav Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

– Carl Gustav Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

– Carl Gustav Jung

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

– Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.

– Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

– Mark Twain

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

– Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

– Mark Twain

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

– Mark Twain

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