Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.
The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
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