- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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