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“Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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