Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. A reference to the death of Archimedes.
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