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Allan Bloom: We are like...

Allan Bloom: We are like...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not...

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Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...

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Kelly Miller: All great people...

Kelly Miller: All great people...

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized...

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Charles Wesley: Faith, mighty faith...

Charles Wesley: Faith, mighty faith...

Faith, mighty faith the promise sees
And rests on that alone:
Laughs at impossibilities,
And says it shall be...

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Mother Teresa: God is the...

Mother Teresa: God is the...

God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon...

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Immanuel Kant: I had to...

Immanuel Kant: I had to...

I had to set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.

Source: In The...

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Immanuel Kant: All thought must,...

Immanuel Kant: All thought must,...

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and...

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Plutarch: The mind is...

Plutarch: The mind is...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Source: In The...

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Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Manly Hall: The end of...

Manly Hall: The end of...

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Source: In...

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George Santayana: By nature's kindly...

George Santayana: By nature's kindly...

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Remorse sleeps during...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Remorse sleeps during...

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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Emile M Cioran: To be human...

Emile M Cioran: To be human...

To be human is no solution, any more than ceasing to be so.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of...

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