Famous quotes containing the words operation, enduring and/or freedom:
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“We have paid for nothing more dearly than for the little bit of human reason and the sense of freedom that currently constitutes our pride.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)