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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.