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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Seek simplicity, then distrust.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
There is no nature in an instant.
There is no nature at an instant.
Error itself may be happy chance.
Value is coextensive with reality.
War can protect; it cannot create.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
The motive of success is not enough.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Problems are only opportunities in disquise.
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
The many become one and are increased by one.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.
