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- "Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man ..."
- "An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. "
- "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. "
- "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition ..."
- "But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, ..."
- "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking ..."
- "Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. "
- "Common sense is genius in homespun. "
- "Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges ..."
- "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. "
- "Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual ..."
- "Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its ..."
- "I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's ..."
- "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. "
- "If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; ..."
- "In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and ..."
- "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely ..."
- "It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the ..."
- "Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. "
- "Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes ..."
- ""Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of ..."
- "No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise ..."
- "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not ..."
- "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. "
- "One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of ..."
- "Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. "
- "Philosophy is the product of wonder. "
- "Seek simplicity but distrust it. "
- "Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the ..."
- "Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. "
- "Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. "
- "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid ..."
- "The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. "
- "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about ..."
- "There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes ..."
- "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of ..."
- "We think in generalities, but we live in detail. "
- "What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then ..."
- "When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. "
- "Without adventure civilization is in full decay. "
