It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

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Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

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