It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes...

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always...

That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of...

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of...

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

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

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

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death...

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death...

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life...

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life...