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 | "Ideas won"t keep; something must be done about them." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and
by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate
the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the
case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important
operations which we can perform without thinking about them." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "Value is coextensive with reality." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the
power of wandering." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "Wisdom alone is true ambition"s aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and
of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you
share it, best enjoyed." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most
singular things in all literature." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic
ideas." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "Religion is the last refuge of human savagery." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up." | |
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Found in the topic Tranquility.
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| "To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It
merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete
element of nature." | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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| "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm
resolve of virtue and reason." | |
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Found in the topic Firm.
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| "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the
obvious." | |
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Found in the topic Analysis.
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| ""Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb.
"Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the
truth." | |
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Found in the topic Invention.
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| "What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority
then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike." | |
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Found in the topic Immorality.
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| "Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of
the Universe." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "If a dog jumps up into 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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Found in the topic Cat.
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| "We think in generalities, but we live in details." | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did
not discover it." | |
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Found in the topic Quotations.
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| "Every really new idea looks crazy at first." | |
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Found in the topic First.
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| "Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of
finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the
purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that
infinitude." | |
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Found in the topic Infidelity.
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