“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Men“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
Society“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Men“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
Happiness“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
Society“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Nature“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
Positive“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
Science“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
Future“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
History“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
Experience“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
Dreams“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”
Change“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
Marriage“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
Wisdom“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
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