"I have achieved an inner freedom."

-- Dmitri Mendeleev

“Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.”
“That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”
“Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.”
“We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.”
“You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.”
“Behind every fortune, there's a crime.”

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