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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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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.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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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.
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