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The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.
The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Life is to blame for everything.
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
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A. P. Herbert
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24 September, 1890
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11 November, 1971
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