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1880–1968 United States
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind.
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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love."
In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head. This was my first conscious perception of an abstract idea.
The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.
My Religion (1927)
The growth of philosophy is the story of man's spiritual life.
Optimism (1903)
Now, so far as I can judge, self-love is the root of all evil
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
Optimism (1903)
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
Optimism (1903)
Suffering and death are the great teachers of mankind.
We Bereaved (1929)
He who travels the hazardous road of misfortune courageously, leaves it strewn with sweet flowers of consolation for others.
We Bereaved (1929)
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
No pessimist ever won an audience commensurately wide with his genius.
Optimism (1903)
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
We Bereaved (1929)
The beautiful truth burst upon my mind — I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.
Toleration ... is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
It is the possibility of happiness, intelligence and power that give life its sanctity, and they are absent in the case of a poor, misshapen, paralyzed, unthinking creature.
No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937 (1938)
I thought it strange that my teacher could not show me love.
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