“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.