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" Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. "

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" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "

" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "

" As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. "

" Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. "

" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "

" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "

" I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. "

" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

" All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "

" Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. "

" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "

" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "

" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "

" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "

" Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. "

" Liberation is not deliverance. "

" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "

" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "

" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "

" The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. "

" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "

" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "