Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.Alfred North Whitehead
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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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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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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