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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."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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