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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Experience

4.7 · 22 votes · 160 reads

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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.

Destiny

4.3 · 21 votes · 185 reads

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

Common Sense

4.3 · 36 votes

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Philosophy

4.3 · 45 votes · 150 reads

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Thought and Reason
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
3.3 · 38 votes · 90 reads
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Nature
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
3.7 · 11 votes · 170 reads
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Various
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
3.7 · 15 votes · 172 reads
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Virtues
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
4.6 · 31 votes · 124 reads
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Nature
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
4.6 · 23 votes · 71 reads
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Nature
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
4.6 · 25 votes · 113 reads
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Thought and Reason
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
4.8 · 7 votes · 188 reads
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Virtues
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
4.1 · 56 votes · 84 reads
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Virtues
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
5.0 · 63 votes · 74 reads
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Thought and Reason
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
4.8 · 17 votes · 188 reads
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Time
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
4.9 · 61 votes · 142 reads
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Thought and Reason
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
4.3 · 30 votes · 14 reads
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Virtues
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
3.4 · 42 votes · 141 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
4.0 · 52 votes · 46 reads
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