It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.Alfred North Whitehead
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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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
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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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The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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