Quote #195

I experienced as a child at the age of four or five when my father showed me a compass. That this needle behaved in such a determined way was all out of place concerning the manner of the events which could find a place in the unconscious vocabulary of concepts: I still remember today: that this experience has left a permanent impression with me.

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  1. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
  2. Autobiographic writings, 1946; this needs a specific published source.
  3. I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
  4. I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
  5. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
  6. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
  7. I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's much bigger than I am.
  8. I wish they don't forget to keep those treasures pure which they have in excellence over the west: their artistic building of life, the sim…

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