“ Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ”
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“ If a dog jumps in 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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“ Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”
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“ If a dog jumps in 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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“ The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. ”
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“ Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. ”
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“ If a dog jumps in 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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“ Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. ”
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“ I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. ”
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“ The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. ”
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“ The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ”
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“ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ”
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“ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ”
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“ Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. ”
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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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“ 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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“ If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warm. ”
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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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“ No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ”
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“ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. ”
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“ No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ”
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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 aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust 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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“ Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenthcentury Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects.... ”
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“ Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. ”
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“ The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. ”
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