Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Education

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Truth

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,--you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

La esperança es gran falsificadora de la verdad: corríjala la cordura, procurando que sea superior la fruición al deseo. ~ Baltasar Gracián, El Arte de la Prudencia (Number 19), 1647

True humanistic study is not geared to generalized, portable truths; it is geared to human transformation. ~ Mark Edmundson, Why Read?, p. 51

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, thought you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

The truth and grandeur of their thought is proved by its scope and applicability, for it commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

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