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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

Alfred North Whitehead · Experience

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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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.

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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