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Fernando Pessoa1 quote
Out of a few misunderstandings with reality we construct beliefs and hopes, and we live on these crusts, which we call bread, just like poor children who play at being happy. — Fernando Pessoa · 1982Isaiah Berlin1 quote
There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel... And on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes... Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second. — Isaiah Berlin · 1953Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1860William James1 quote
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos. — William James · 1906