To be civilized is to be potentially master of all …– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his
Have the courage to act instead of react.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content
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