Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
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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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There is no nature at an instant.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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