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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.


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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.



Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.



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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.



Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.



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