The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility.
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The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.
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Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.
— Neel Burton Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
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Music is the school and the hospital of the emotions.
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The best books are those that tell you what you already know, but didn't know that you knew.
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According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man.
— Neel Burton Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
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