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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. We also forget that genius is not genius all the time, although it is superior all the time.

— Ernest Dimnet The Art of Thinking (1928)

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Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

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