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"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"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."
"There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths."
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
"...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
"Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life."
"From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery."
"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations."
"The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality."
"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
"How the past perishes is how the future becomes."