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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which...

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others....

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you but if a cat...

Speech is human nature itself with none of the artificiality of written...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of defeat but in the...

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is...

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on...

The task of a university is the creation of the future so far as rational...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment...

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve...

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change...

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has...

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom is the source of virtue and of...