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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.


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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.



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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.



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

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



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

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



Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.



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

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



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

...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.



Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.





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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.



I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.



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In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.



Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

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