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May Quotes - Page 130

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

"The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany". Book by Antoine Berman, 1992.

Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.203, Random House

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.151

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.135, Hazelden Publishing