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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
"Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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