"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
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"No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality."
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"Problems are only opportunities in disquise."
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"The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience."
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"Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered."
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"Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling."
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"Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God."
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"Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion."
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"Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks."
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"Error is the price we pay for progress."
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"The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls."
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"Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning."
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"The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system."
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"Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science."
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"The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life."
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"Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended."
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"I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it."
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"We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision."
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"A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions."
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"...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity."
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