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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.
Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.