- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
- Generalities
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense is genius in homespun.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Emerges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
- Apprehend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
- Nov 07, 2020
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- Obvious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
- Plato
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- Nov 07, 2020
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
- Infinite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020