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\u201cMan can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)<\/p>\n

_Elective Affinities_ [1809]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIf thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nDante Alighieri 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy, Inferno XV, l.55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cThe aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts.
\nWe are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple
\nbecause simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto of every
\nnatural philosopher should be, \u201cSeek simplicity and distrust it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nAlfred North Whitehead, _The Concept of Nature_<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cDo not let too strong a light come into your bedroom. There are in a beauty a great many things which are enhanced by being seen only in a half-light.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nOvid (43 BC – 18 AD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\u201cIt is by reading novels, stories, and myths that we come to understand the ideas that govern the world in which we live; it is fiction that gives us access to the truths kept veiled by our families, our schools, and our society; it is the art of the novel that allows us to ask who we really are.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u2014<\/td>\nOrhan Pamuk (1952- )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMan can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.\u201d \u2014 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) _Elective Affinities_ [1809] \u201cIf thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.\u201d \u2014 Dante Alighieri 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy, Inferno XV, … Continue reading And yet still more<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22705,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703\/revisions\/22705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}