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"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Courage
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
Life
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
Humor
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
Religion
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
Intelligence
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