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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#affects #benefits #cannot #changes #character

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#earth #feel #house #like #our

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. ↗

— Maimonides

#convinced #end #man #preparatory #reach

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. ↗

— Maimonides

#all things #assist #essence #established #every

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. ↗

— Maimonides

#almighty #both #comparison #existence #greatness

I am like that guy on the 'Odd Couple,' and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#couple #find #go #guy #i

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ↗

— Maimonides

#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#art #codes #diffusion #discovery #doubtless