"In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read â€” and they have been many, big, and heavy â€” I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience."

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Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Patricia Ann Turrisi (1997). “Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism”, p.160, SUNY Press

Charles Sanders Peirce

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“To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.200, Shambhala Publications
“If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.”
“I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.”
“I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.”
“It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.”
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.
“I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.”

Source : "'Sometimes I think this is so undignified'". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.
“If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.”

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