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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.


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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.



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.

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.



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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.



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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.



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