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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.