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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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The modern fading of interest in religion.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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Error is the price we pay for progress.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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For the kingdom of heaven is with us today.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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