A mans mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
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The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to ones self 'the work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes 'The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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