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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
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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.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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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.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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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.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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