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• Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam…
• At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through;…
• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
• Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to…
• A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose…
• Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you.…
• Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is…
• The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even…
• God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
• I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops,…
• The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they…

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