Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
From Alfred North Whitehead
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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.
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.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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