“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
