

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”
― Sources
― Sources

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”
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“Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.”
― The Meaning of Madness
― The Meaning of Madness

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.”
― The Idea of a University
― The Idea of a University
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