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• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
• Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had…
• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road…
• The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out…
• The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,…
• A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
• The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
• The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
• Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.…

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