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| That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions |
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| The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything |
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| The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper |
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| The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. |
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| The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. |
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| The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular |
| Belief; Life |
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| The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity |
| Imagination; Poetry; Reality |
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| The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
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| The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. |
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| The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it |
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| The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. |
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| The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. |
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| The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality |
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| The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. |
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| The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey |
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| The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them |
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| The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. |
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| The highest form of vanity is love of fame. |
| Fame; Vanity |
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