“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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.