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• Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give…
• So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons…
• We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…
• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains…
• Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived…
• He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of…
• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the…
• That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
• My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing…
• All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,…
• Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
• Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.

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