The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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More Quotes from Anais Nin
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
