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.
Alfred North Whitehead
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- 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.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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