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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of read more
The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own read more
It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.
To know truly is to know by causes.
To know truly is to know by causes.
The wise learn many things from their foes.
The wise learn many things from their foes.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
