The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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.
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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