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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Philosophy is the highest music.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

There’s high, and there’s high, and to get really high – I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that’s where I’m going.

Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.