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| Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality |
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| People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another |
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| Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself |
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| Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. |
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| Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise |
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| Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. |
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| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
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| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual |
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| Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. |
| Generosity |
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| Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked. |
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| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. |
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| Sanity is a madness put to good use. |
| Sanity |
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| Sanity is a madness put to good uses |
| Sanity |
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| Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. |
| Common sense; Science |
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| Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca |
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| Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. |
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| Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. |
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| That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. |
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