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- From "Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life"
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- The Storm
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- Let us imagine a pilot and assume that he had passed
- every examination with distinction, but that he had
- not as yet been at sea. Imagine him in a storm; he
- knows everything he ought to do, but he has not
- known before how terror grips the seafarer when the
- stars are lost in the blackness of night; he has not
- known the sense of impotence that comes when the
- pilot sees the wheel in his hand become a plaything
- for the waves; he has not known how the blood rushes
- to the head when one tries to make calculations at
- such a moment; in short, has had had no conception
- of the change that takes place in the knower when he
- has to apply his knowledge.
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- ONE OUNCE OF APPLICATION IS WORTH A TON OF
- ABSTRACTION
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