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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
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"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
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"I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness."
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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
History
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
Cultural
"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."
Time
"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."
Judgment
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
Art
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
Attitude
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
Goal
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
Experience
"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
Fun
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
Age
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